Revelation Time-Words: Part 1 Reference Appendix

Revelation Words and Tokens · Part 1 Reference Appendix

The occurrence lists and calculations behind Counting the Time-Words in Revelation.

The tables distinguish three things: a word’s position in the text, the duration expressed in its setting, and a symbolic value assigned by the proposed reading. The numbering always follows occurrences; a duration such as ten days does not create ten tokens.

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In this appendix

A. Revelation: the occurrence lists

Each lemma has its own sequence. When three forms of kairos occur in Revelation 12:14, all three receive a number. The half-hour word in 8:1 is listed separately from hōra, and the six forms of etos in chapter 20 are listed separately from eniautos.

A1. Hour — ὥρα: 10

No.RevelationExpression or settingNarrative context
13:3An unexpected hourThe warning to Sardis.
23:10The hour of trialThe promise to Philadelphia.
39:15The appointed hourThe four angels are released at the sixth trumpet.
411:13That hourAn earthquake follows the witnesses’ ascent.
514:7The hour of judgmentThe first angel’s proclamation.
614:15The hour to reapThe command to harvest the earth.
717:12One hourThe ten kings receive authority with the beast.
818:10One hourThe kings lament Babylon’s judgment.
918:17One hourBabylon’s wealth is laid waste.
1018:19One hourThe seafarers lament Babylon’s desolation.

Separate term: Revelation 8:1 contains hēmiōrion (ἡμιώριον), “half an hour.” It lies between hour-tokens 2 and 3. Giving it a symbolic weight of ½ yields the weighted sequence 1, 2, 2½, 3½ … 10½. Here 2½ is a running value after the half-hour, not the number of a fractional word occurrence. The ordinary hōra index remains 1–10.

A2. Day — ἡμέρα: 21

No.RevelationExpression or settingContext and proposed association
11:10The Lord’s DayThe opening vision; a beginning associated with the first day and resurrection.
22:10Ten days of testingSmyrna’s tribulation; the duration ten occurs within a single day-token.
32:13The days of AntipasPergamum’s faithful witness and martyrdom; a possible comparison with Daniel 3.
44:8Praise day and nightThe four living creatures; an association with the fourth creation day and its lights.
56:17The great day of wrathThe sixth seal; an early preview of the final confrontation.
67:15Service day and nightThe great multitude before the throne; redeemed humanity in God’s presence.
78:12A third of the day darkenedThe fourth trumpet; the seventh token completes the first third of the grid.
89:6People seek death in those daysThe locust judgment; a dark reversal of the new beginning suggested by an eighth day.
99:15The appointed dayHour, day, month, and year converge at the sixth trumpet and the Euphrates.
1010:7The days of the seventh angelThe mystery reaches completion; the proposed Thunder Week begins.
1111:31,260 days of testimonyThe two witnesses prophesy; their lampstand imagery also recalls light-bearing witness.
1211:6The days of their prophecyThe witnesses shut the sky and strike the earth with plagues: Elijah and Moses imagery.
1311:9Three and a half daysThe witnesses’ bodies are exposed; apparent victory for their enemies.
1411:11After three and a half daysLife returns to the witnesses; the second third of the grid is complete.
1512:61,260 days in the wildernessThe woman is protected and nourished; a new-exodus association.
1612:10Accusation day and nightThe accuser is thrown down; the proposed Thunder Week ends with victory.
1714:11No rest day and nightJudgment on beast worship; the chapter also presents the redeemed as firstfruits.
1816:14The great day of GodThe sixth bowl; the kings gather for battle after the Euphrates is dried up.
1918:8Plagues in one dayBabylon’s destruction; possible echoes of Egypt’s plagues and Jericho’s fall.
2020:10Torment day and nightThe devil’s final judgment; evil is brought to its end.
2121:25Open gates by day; no nightThe new Jerusalem; the final position of the third symbolic week.

The descriptive column supplies the biblical setting; the final column records associations proposed in this study. A phrase such as “creation day” or “new exodus” in that column is an interpretive comparison, not an additional date supplied by Revelation.

A3. Month — μήν: 6

No.RevelationExpression or settingNarrative context
19:5Five monthsThe locusts are permitted to torment.
29:10Five monthsThe locusts’ authority is restated.
39:15The appointed monthThe central term receives a one-month weight in the proposed model.
411:2Forty-two monthsThe nations trample the holy city.
513:5Forty-two monthsThe beast is permitted to exercise authority.
622:2Each monthThe tree of life yields its fruit month by month; twelve crops describe the annual cycle.

Revelation 9:15 speaks of an appointed hour, day, month, and year. It does not explicitly describe a duration of one month. Revelation 22:2 contains one month-token within a description of recurring fruitfulness. The one-month hinge and the twelve-month harvest cycle are values used in the model, distinct from the six lexical occurrences.

A4. Appointed time — καιρός: 7

No.RevelationExpression or settingPlace in the sequence
11:3The time is nearOpening bookend.
211:18The time to judge the deadThe seventh trumpet and the announcement of judgment and reward.
312:12A short timeThe devil knows his opportunity is limited.
412:14A timeThe middle token of seven; the first term of the wilderness formula.
512:14TimesThe plural term, read as two within the prophetic formula.
612:14Half a timeThe final term of the three-and-a-half formula.
722:10The time is nearClosing bookend.

The same seven entries support two groupings. 1 + 5 + 1 emphasizes the matching prologue and epilogue. 3 + 3 + 1 emphasizes the three occurrences in the wilderness formula. The formula’s three tokens express a duration read as 1 + 2 + ½ = 3½; token count and duration remain distinct.

A5. Span or duration — χρόνος: 4

No.RevelationExpression or settingNarrative context
12:21Time to repentPatience before judgment.
26:11A little longerThe martyrs wait for the completion of their fellow servants’ witness.
310:6No further delayThe angel’s oath announces the approaching completion of the mystery.
420:3A short timeSatan’s release follows the thousand years.

In 10:6, the reading “no further delay” follows the movement toward the completion of God’s mystery in 10:7. The study does not need to understand the verse as a declaration that time itself ceases to exist.

A6. The two year-words: 1 + 6

ἐνιαυτός — 1: Revelation 9:15, the year in the appointed hour–day–month–year sequence.

ἔτος — 6: the six occurrences in the following table, all within the thousand-year passage.

No.RevelationExpressionNarrative context
120:2A thousand yearsSatan is bound.
220:3A thousand yearsThe nations are protected from his deception until the period ends.
320:4A thousand yearsThe martyrs live and reign with Christ.
420:5A thousand yearsThe rest of the dead do not live until the period ends.
520:6A thousand yearsThose in the first resurrection serve as priests and reign.
620:7A thousand yearsAt its completion Satan is released.

The proposed creation comparison reverses six-plus-one into one-plus-six. It also draws together the abyss, restraint, and release imagery in chapters 9 and 20. A further mirrored reading can treat the solitary year as a hinge encountered on an inward and an outward movement, as in the month model. That doubled weighting belongs to the interpretation; it does not add a second occurrence of eniautos.

A7. Night — νύξ: 8

No.RevelationSettingRelation to the day sequence
14:8Praise without ceasingDay-token 4
27:15Service before the throneDay-token 6
38:12A third of the night darkenedDay-token 7
412:10The accuser’s activityDay-token 16
514:11No rest for beast worshippersDay-token 17
620:10The devil’s tormentDay-token 20
721:25No night in the cityDay-token 21
822:5No more nightBeyond the final day-token

These are not seven identical “day and night” formulas followed by an eighth. The fourth trumpet describes the darkening of both day and night; the closing two passages deny night. The narrower observation is that seven night-tokens fall within the span ending at day-token 21, and the eighth follows it.

B. Reading the day grid precisely

Positions, boundaries, and intervals

The grid contains twenty-one entries, arranged as three groups of seven. Its exact third-points are 7, 14, and 21. The central entry is number 11. If the entries are represented as twenty-one equal time-units, the halfway boundary is at 10½ elapsed units, within the eleventh unit. This distinction prevents the tenth token from being described as the exact middle of an odd-numbered sequence.

The fifth entry lies near the first quarter: 5/21 is approximately 23.8 percent. It is not exactly one-quarter. The sixth-seal scene at token 5 and the sixth-bowl scene at token 18 are thirteen positions apart, although an inclusive list from 5 through 18 contains fourteen entries. Neither reckoning turns the intervening visions into thirteen stated days.

The sequence may also be expressed as 10 + 10 + 1, with the final token standing beyond two groups of ten. This is another way to group the same twenty-one entries. It does not replace the three-by-seven arrangement or identify a new set of occurrences.

Creation and the opening church scenes

The first three day-tokens belong to the opening vision and the letters to Smyrna and Pergamum. A symbolic association with the opening three churches—Ephesus, Smyrna, and Pergamum—therefore requires one qualification: the first occurrence is in the prologue at 1:10, before the letter to Ephesus. It is not a day-token inside that letter.

The grid’s first week invites a broad creation reading: an opening day, faithful witness, heavenly praise, judgment, redeemed humanity, and darkened lights. Its fourth column recalls the lights of Genesis 1:14–19; the fourth trumpet later reverses that imagery. The great multitude serving before the throne at day-token 6 belongs to the wider context of Revelation 7, which first describes the sealing of the 144,000 and then presents the multitude. The wording of 7:15 directly describes the latter.

These links work at different levels. The division into three sevens is arithmetic. The comparison with creation is thematic. Revelation does not label each successive day-token as the corresponding day of Genesis.

The two Euphrates scenes

FeatureDay 9Day 18
Day-token918
Reference9:15; river in 9:1416:14; river in 16:12
Judgment settingSixth trumpetSixth bowl
ActionFour bound angels are released.The Euphrates is dried; kings gather for battle.
Time-word featureHour 3; day 9; month 3; year 1.The great day of God.
Proposed six-pattern9 symbolic days × 24 hours = 216 = 6 × 6 × 6.18 = 6 + 6 + 6.

The four time-word positions in 9:15 total 3 + 9 + 3 + 1 = 16 = 4 × 4. This permits a comparison between the four released angels and the four living creatures before the throne. The surrounding trumpet sequence also has three woes; 9:12 announces that the first has passed and two remain. These are related numerical motifs, not separate demonstrations that the same hidden equation is stated in each passage.

In the sixth-bowl scene, three unclean spirits emerge from three mouths—the dragon’s, the beast’s, and the false prophet’s. There are three spirits altogether. The scene can be read as a counterfeit threefold alliance, but it does not describe three spirits from each mouth.

The army of 200,000,000 in Revelation 9:16 has also been compared with the 200 descending angels in 1 Enoch 6:6. The comparison concerns an expanded numerical echo and the theme of hostile supernatural powers. The two texts give different numbers, and the parallel does not by itself demonstrate direct dependence.

C. Passover, firstfruits, and the Nisan overlay

Three coordinate systems must remain visible: the numbered word sequence, its Sunday-to-Saturday grid, and a proposed overlay of Nisan dates. A token numbered 14 occupies the Saturday column of this grid and may also be compared with Nisan 14. Those two labels do not establish that the historical Nisan 14 of the Passion fell on a Saturday.

Nisan 14 and 15

John 19:14 supplies the language of Passover preparation. Numbers 33:3 explicitly places Israel’s departure from Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month. Those references motivate the comparisons with tokens 14 and 15. The renewed life of the witnesses and the woman’s flight into the wilderness join resurrection and exodus imagery within the proposed structure.

The relationship between John’s Passion chronology and the Synoptic accounts is a separate interpretive question. Assigning different boundaries to the day does not, by itself, settle every difference in their descriptions. The present token grid can display a Nisan 14/15 correspondence without claiming that it resolves the historical chronology.

Nisan 16, a Sunday reckoning, and token 17

Leviticus 23:11 places the wave offering on the day after the Sabbath. The interpretation of that Sabbath matters. Josephus, Antiquities 3.10.5 (§250), describes the offering on the sixteenth, the second day of Unleavened Bread. The discussion in Menachot 65b preserves the dispute over a reckoning tied to the weekly Sabbath and thus to Sunday.

A fixed Nisan 16 observance can fall on different weekdays. A Sunday reckoning can fall on different Nisan dates. Nisan 17 is therefore one possible Sunday date under a specified calendar alignment, rather than the necessary date of the offering in every year. The numerical reading associates tokens 16 and 17 with these alternative firstfruits comparisons; it does not establish that John and the Synoptic writers followed different sectarian calendars.

Revelation 14:4 calls the redeemed firstfruits before the seventeenth day-token appears in 14:11. The contrast between redeemed firstfruits and the unrest of beast worshippers is present within the chapter. That narrative contrast remains intelligible even when the proposed Nisan date is left as a further layer of interpretation.

The ark’s rest on the seventeenth

Genesis 8:4 dates the ark’s rest to the seventeenth day of the seventh month. Identifying that month with Nisan requires an autumn-first reckoning for the Flood narrative and a subsequent comparison with the spring-first calendar of Exodus 12:2. Genesis itself does not name the month Nisan. The proposed Nisan 17 association therefore depends on that calendar assumption.

The wider comparison brings together deliverance through judgment, rest after the Flood, exodus into the wilderness, resurrection, and firstfruits. Its theological coherence can be considered without presenting every proposed date as an explicit statement of the biblical text.

D. The month model and its arithmetic

What the six occurrences contribute

The first five occurrences supply the sequence 5, 5, 1, 42, 42 when the appointed month in 9:15 is assigned a unit value. The last occurrence supplies the recurring monthly fruit of 22:2. The repeated fives and forty-twos make a paired structure around the central term; they do not form a palindrome of identical numerical values.

StepCalculationInterpretation
Central weighting1 × 2 = 2The central occurrence is assigned two one-month weights.
Opening section5 + 5 + 2 = 12 monthsOne schematic year.
Longer pair42 + 42 = 84 monthsSeven schematic years.
First five tokens, weighted12 + 84 = 96 monthsEight schematic years.
Closing harvest cycle12 monthsAn annual interpretation of monthly fruit.
Combined arrangement12 + 84 + 12 = 108 monthsNine schematic years: 1 + 7 + 1.

The second weight given to the central month is the decisive interpretive choice. Passing through the center of a diagram in two directions does not create another word in the text. The model is useful only if that additional weighting and the annual interpretation of the closing harvest are stated openly.

A possible intercalation analogy

In a schematic calendar, 1,260 days equal three and a half years of 360 days. Adding a thirty-day month produces 1,290 days. This allows the following paired periods:

Paired periodsTotal daysAdditional thirty-day months
1,260 + 1,2602,520None
1,290 + 1,2602,550One
1,290 + 1,2902,580Two

The central month in the proposed mirror can be read as an intercalation motif, linking the 1,260- and 1,290-day forms. That is a mathematical and symbolic comparison. Daniel 12 does not specify a complete calendar rule for inserting leap months.

One illustrative scheme begins with forty years of 360 days and adds seven thirty-day months. If the insertions are spaced over six six-year intervals and one four-year interval, the arithmetic is:

(40 × 360) + (7 × 30) = 14,610 days

14,610 ÷ 40 = 365.25 days per year

This equals the mean length of a Julian year. It demonstrates what that proposed 360-day intercalation scheme produces; it should not be cited as an established rule of ancient Jewish lunar-calendar practice. Nor does the forty-year average, on its own, establish which shorter seven-year spans would receive zero, one, or two additional months.

The hour–day–month–year sequence as an additive reading

A second calculation assigns one unit to each term in Revelation 9:15: a 360-day year, a thirty-day month, one day, and one hour. Read additively, these yield 391 days and one hour. The 391-day portion factors as 17 × 23.

This preserves the proposed numerical connection while keeping its premise visible. The verse’s ordinary sense identifies an appointed moment by hour, day, month, and year. It does not explicitly tell the reader to add those units into a composite duration. The 360 + 30 component may serve the study’s leap-month analogy, but it remains an interpretive use of the time-ladder.

E. The Gospel of John: comparative inventory

Time-wordGreek lemmaJohnComparison
Dayἡμέρα3131 + 21 = 52; read as weeks, 52 × 7 = 364 days.
Hourὥρα2626 + 10 = 36; with the half-hour weighting, 36½.
Nightνύξ66 + 8 = 14, or two sevens.
Sabbath / weekσάββατον1313 × 7 = 91 days, one quarter of a 364-day year.
Appointed timeκαιρός33 + 7 = 10.
Span or durationχρόνος44 + 4 = 8.
Yearἐνιαυτός33 + 1 = 4.
Monthμήν0All six month occurrences in this comparison belong to Revelation.
Festivalἑορτή17Five early occurrences, seven in chapter 7, and five in the final Passover setting.
Passoverπάσχα10A separate count retained alongside the festival series.

The cross-book arithmetic assigns symbolic units to the counts. Fifty-two day-word occurrences become fifty-two weeks only after a change of scale. Thirteen Sabbath/week terms become a ninety-one-day quarter by the same sevenfold multiplication. Similarly, thirty-six hours can suggest a day and a half and invite a tomb comparison, but the combined word count does not independently date Jesus’ burial or resurrection.

The totals of fourteen nights, ten appointed times, eight spans, and four year-terms invite comparisons with two sevens, completeness, new creation, and the four seasons. These associations extend the study’s reading; they do not change the meaning of an individual occurrence in its sentence.

E1. The 26 hour-tokens

No.JohnExpression or setting
11:39About the tenth hour; the first disciples remain with Jesus.
22:4Jesus’ hour has not yet come.
34:6About the sixth hour; Jesus sits at the well.
44:21An hour is coming when worship will not be tied to either mountain.
54:23The hour is coming, and is now here, for true worship.
64:52aThe father asks at what hour his son began to recover.
74:52bThe servants name the seventh hour.
84:53The father recognizes the same hour in which Jesus spoke.
95:25The hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead hear the Son.
105:28The hour is coming when those in the tombs hear His voice.
115:35The people were willing to rejoice in John’s light for a time.
127:30Jesus’ hour has not yet come.
138:20His hour has not yet come.
1411:9The twelve hours of the day.
1512:23The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
1612:27aJesus speaks of being saved from this hour.
1712:27bHe has come to this hour for this purpose.
1813:1His hour has come to leave the world and go to the Father.
1916:2An hour is coming when persecutors will think they serve God.
2016:4The warning is to be remembered when their hour comes.
2116:21A woman in labor grieves because her hour has come.
2216:25An hour is coming when Jesus will speak plainly of the Father.
2316:32The hour is coming, and has come, when the disciples will scatter.
2417:1Father, the hour has come.
2519:14About the sixth hour on the Preparation of the Passover.
2619:27From that hour the disciple takes Jesus’ mother into his own home.

The letters “a” and “b” distinguish two occurrences within the same verse. The final two entries are 19:14 and 19:27: the preparation scene contains token 25, and the disciple’s reception of Jesus’ mother contains token 26.

E2. The 17 festival-tokens: 5 + 7 + 5

The seventeen entries are occurrences of heortē (ἑορτή), “festival” or “feast.” The separate names Passover (πάσχα), Tabernacles (Σκηνοπηγία), and Dedication (Ἐγκαίνια) identify festival settings; their occurrences are not all added into this total. In particular, the separately reported ten Passover terms do not increase the seventeen heortē tokens.

No.JohnGroup
12:23Early group (1–5)
24:45aEarly group (1–5)
34:45bEarly group (1–5)
45:1Early group (1–5)
56:4Early group (1–5)
67:2Tabernacles group (6–12)
77:8aTabernacles group (6–12)
87:8bTabernacles group (6–12)
97:10Tabernacles group (6–12)
107:11Tabernacles group (6–12)
117:14Tabernacles group (6–12)
127:37Tabernacles group (6–12)
1311:56Final Passover group (13–17)
1412:12Final Passover group (13–17)
1512:20Final Passover group (13–17)
1613:1Final Passover group (13–17)
1713:29Final Passover group (13–17)

The pattern is five occurrences before the Tabernacles setting, seven within John 7, and five in the final Passover setting. Dedication in John 10:22 belongs to the Gospel’s wider festival narrative but adds no heortē occurrence to this list. The Greek concordance for ἑορτή provides the textual references.

E3. Other reference points

LemmaCountReferences
νύξ — night63:2; 9:4; 11:10; 13:30; 19:39; 21:3
καιρός — appointed time37:6 (twice); 7:8
χρόνος — span or duration45:6; 7:33; 12:35; 14:9
ἐνιαυτός — year311:49; 11:51; 18:13
μήν — month0No occurrences in the study’s Johannine inventory.

The thirty-one day-tokens run from the disciples’ stay with Jesus in 1:39 to the renewed appearance to the disciples in 20:26. The early entries at 2:1 and 2:12 introduce the Cana sequence; the last two occur at 20:19 and 20:26. These endpoints provide the frame used in the comparison with Revelation’s twenty-one days. The day and Sabbath counts are retained here as comparative totals; this appendix supplies selected reference points rather than a complete concordance for those two Johannine lemmas.

E4. The proposed 1,290-day frame

The model expresses the span as 1,260 + 30 = 1,290 days and labels its endpoints Tishri 16, AD 26 → Nisan 16, AD 30. To obtain 1,290, the interval is represented by forty-two schematic thirty-day months plus one additional month: (42 × 30) + 30.

The labels locate the proposal within a reconstruction of Jesus’ ministry. They are not enough, by themselves, to determine the elapsed days of an actual ancient calendar. That would require a specified calendar reconstruction and its intercalations. The distinction also leaves John’s thirty-one day-word occurrences separate from the 1,290 days assigned to the larger frame.

F. Sources and related studies

The occurrence data and proposed patterns belong to the five-part Revelation Words and Tokens study. The Revelation indices above preserve its counts and textual order. The full Johannine hour index is also developed in Part 5. Greek words are grouped by lemma; an English translation’s choice of “time,” “hour,” or “while” does not determine which Greek word is being counted.

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