Revelation 19 · Verse 13

Revelation 19:13

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 19:13, King James Version

Revelation 19:13 in other translations

BSBHe is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
WEBHe is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”
ASVAnd he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
YLTand he is arrayed with a garment covered with blood, and his name is called, The Word of God.
DARBYand he is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.
BBEAnd he is clothed in a robe washed with blood: and his name is The Word of God.
WebsterAnd he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called, The Word of God.

What does Revelation 19:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. vesture dipped in blood--Is 63:2 is alluded to here, and in Re 19:15, end. There the blood is not His own, but that of His foes. So here the blood on His "vesture," reminding us of His own blood shed for even the ungodly who trample on it, is a premonition of the shedding of their blood in righteous retribution. He sheds the blood, not of the godly, as the harlot and beast did, but of the blood-stained ungodly, including them both. The Word of God--who made the world, is He also who under the same character and attributes shall make it anew. His title, Son of God, is applicable in a lower sense, also to His people; but "the Word of God" indicates His incommunicable Godhead, joined to His manhood, which He shall then manifest in glory. "The Bride does not fear the Bridegroom; her love casteth out fear. She welcomes Him; she cannot be happy but at His side. The Lamb [Re 19:9, the aspect of Christ to His people at His coming] is the symbol of Christ in His gentleness. Who would be afraid of a lamb? Even a little child, instead of being scared, desires to caress it. There is nothing to make us afraid of God but sin, and Jesus is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. What a fearful contrast is the aspect which He will wear towards His enemies! Not as the Bridegroom and the Lamb, but as the [avenging] judge and warrior stained in the blood of His enemies."

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 13. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. Red, as if dipped in blood--emblem of slaughter. The original of this image is probably Isa 63:2-3. Isa 63:2-3.

And his name is called The Word of God. The name which in Rev 19:12 it is said that no one knew but he himself. This name is ολογοςτονθεου, or "the Logos of God." That is, this is his peculiar name; a name which belongs only to him, and which distinguishes him from all other beings. The name Logos, as applicable to the Son of God, and expressive of his nature, is found in the New Testament only in the writings of John, and is used by him to denote the higher or Divine nature of the Saviour. In regard to its meaning, and the reason why it is applied to him, Jn 1:1. The reader also may consult with great advantage an article by Professor Stuart in the Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. vii., pp. 16-31. The following may be some of the reasons why it is said (Rev 19:12) that no one understands this but he himself:

(1.) No one but he can understand its full import, as it implies so high a knowledge of the nature of the Deity;

(2.) no one but he can understand the relation which it supposes in regard to God, or the relation of the Son to the Father;

(3.) no one but he can understand what is implied in it, regarded as the method in which God reveals himself to his creatures on earth;

(4.) no one but he can understand what is implied in it in respect to the manner in which God makes himself known to other worlds. It may be added as a further illustration of this, that none of the attempts made to explain it have left the matter so that there are no questions unsolved which one would be glad to ask.

(g) "Word of God" Jn 1:1

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood - To show that he was just come from recent slaughter. The description is taken from Isa 63:2, Isa 63:3, where Judas Maccabeus, or some other conqueror, is described. The Word of God - Written in the Targum, and in other Jewish writings, מימרא דיי meimera daiya, "the word of Jehovah;" by which they always mean a person, and not a word spoken. See the notes on Joh 1:1, etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Revelation 19:11-21

Christ, the glorious Head of the church, is described as on a white horse, the emblem of justice and holiness. He has many crowns, for he is King of kings, and Lord of lords. He is arrayed in a vesture dipped in his own blood, by which he purchased his power as Mediator; and in the blood of his enemies, over whom he always prevails. His name is "The Word of God;" a name none fully knows but himself; only this we…

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Revelation 19:13 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
περιβεβλημένοςperibeblēmenoshaving clothed themselves withG4016
ἱμάτιονhimationa garmentG2440
βεβαμμένονbebammenondippedG911
αἵματι,aimatiin blood,G129
καὶkaiAndG2532
κέκληταιkeklētaihas been calledG2564
τὸtotheG3588
ὄνομαonomanameG3686
αὐτοῦautouof HimG846
ὁhoTheG3588
λόγοςlogosWordG3056
τοῦtou<the>G3588
θεοῦ.theouof God.G2316

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

Cross references for Revelation 19:13

  • John 1:1

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

  • Isaiah 63:1-6

    Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. …

  • John 1:14

    And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

  • Psalms 58:10

    The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

  • Revelation 14:20

    And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

  • 1 John 1:1

    That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

  • Isaiah 9:5

    For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

  • 1 John 5:7

    For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

  • Isaiah 34:3-8

    Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. …

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clothed.
14:20; Ps 58:10; Isa 9:5; 34:3-8; 63:1-6
The.
Joh 1:1,14; 1Jo 1:1; 5:7

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Context

  • Revelation 19:12

    His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

  • Revelation 19:13

    And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

  • Revelation 19:14

    And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

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Revelation 19:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y estaba vestido de una ropa teñida en sangre: y su nombre es llamado EL VERBO DE DIOS.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et il est vêtu d’un vêtement teint dans le sang; et son nom s’appelle: “La Parole de Dieu”;
German
Elberfelder 1871		und er ist bekleidet mit einem in Blut getauchten Gewande, und sein Name heißt: Das Wort Gottes.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et vestitus erat veste aspersa sanguine: et vocatur nomen ejus: Verbum Dei.