Revelation 12 · Verse 8

Revelation 12:8

And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Revelation 12:8, King James Version

Revelation 12:8 in other translations

BSBBut the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels.
WEBThey didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.
ASVand they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.
YLTand they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;
DARBYand he prevailed not, nor was their place found any more in the heaven.
BBEAnd they were overcome, and there was no more place for them in heaven.
WebsterAnd prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

What does Revelation 12:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. prevailed not--A and Coptic read, "He prevailed not." But B and C read as English Version. neither--A, B, and C read, "not even" (Greek, "oude"): a climax. Not only did they not prevail, but not even their place was found any more in heaven. There are four gradations in the ever deeper downfall of Satan: (1) He is deprived of his heavenly excellency, though having still access to heaven as man's accuser, up to Christ's first coming. As heaven was not fully yet opened to man (Joh 3:13), so it was not yet shut against Satan and his demons. The Old Testament dispensation could not overcome him. (2) From Christ, down to the millennium, he is judicially cast out of heaven as the accuser of the elect, and shortly before the millennium loses his power against Israel, and has sentence of expulsion fully executed on him and his by Michael. His rage on earth is consequently the greater, his power being concentrated on it, especially towards the end, when "he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Re 12:12). (3) He is bound during the millennium (Re 20:1-3). (4) After having been loosed for a while, he is cast for ever into the lake of fire.

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 8. And prevailed not. Satan and his angels failed in their purpose.

Neither was their place found any more in heaven. They were cast out, and were seen there no more. The idea is, that they were defeated and driven away, though for a time they were suffered to carry on the warfare elsewhere.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 And prevailed not - Against the cause of Christianity. Neither was their place found any more in heaven - The advocates of the heathen idolatry were prevented from having any farther share in the government of the empire. The wonderful success of Constantine over all his enemies, and his final triumph over Licinius, correspond exactly to the symbolical language in this verse.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Revelation 12:7-11

The attempts of the dragon proved unsuccessful against the church, and fatal to his own interests. The seat of this war was in heaven; in the church of Christ, the kingdom of heaven on earth. The parties were Christ, the great Angel of the covenant, and his faithful followers; and Satan and his instruments. The strength of the church is in having the Lord Jesus for the Captain of their salvation. Pagan idolatry…

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Revelation 12:8 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

καὶkaiAndG2532
οὐκouknotG3756
ἴσχυσεν,ischusenhe had [enough] strength,G2480
οὐδὲoudenorG3761
τόποςtoposa placeG5117
εὑρέθηheurethēwas foundG2147
αὐτῶνautōnfor themG846
ἔτιetiany longerG2089
ἐνeninG1722
τῷtō<the>G3588
οὐρανῷ.ouranōheaven.G3772

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Revelation 12:8

  • Psalms 37:10

    For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

  • Revelation 12:11

    And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

  • Jude 1:6

    And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

  • Jeremiah 1:19

    And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

  • Job 8:18

    If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

  • Romans 8:31-39

    What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. …

  • Acts 1:25

    That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

  • Psalms 13:4

    Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Job 20:9

    The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • Matthew 16:18

    And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

  • Psalms 129:2

    Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

  • Job 7:10

    He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
prevailed not.
11; Ps 13:4; 118:10-13; 129:2; Jer 1:19; 5:22; Mt 16:18; Ro 8:31-39
their.
Job 7:10; 8:18; 20:9; 27:21-23; Ps 37:10; Ac 1:25; Jude 1:6

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Context

  • Revelation 12:7

    And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

  • Revelation 12:8

    And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

  • Revelation 12:9

    And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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Revelation 12:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y no prevalecieron, ni su lugar fué más hallado en el cielo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et il ne fut pas le plus fort, et leur place ne fut plus trouvée dans le ciel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und sie siegten nicht ob, auch wurde ihre Stätte nicht mehr in dem Himmel gefunden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et non valuerunt, neque locus inventus est eorum amplius in cælo.