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Revelation 13:18

Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.
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Greek word breakdown

Greek morphology is not available for this verse. Greek interlinear on Bible Hub ↗

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This book has ECM (Editio Critica Maior) apparatus at many verses — hover shows manuscripts cited at that verse. The full book catalog (all manuscripts containing Revelation) is available too.

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Book catalog
Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.
ECM (Editio Critica Maior)
The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) is the scholarly critical edition of the Greek New Testament. Its apparatus records which manuscripts attest each textual variant at a specific verse.
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Manuscripts cited in the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) apparatus at this specific verse — witnesses for textual variants here. This is usually a smaller set than the full book catalog.

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Timeline
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GA lookup
Gregory–Aland (GA) numbers identify Greek NT manuscripts (01 = Sinaiticus, P46, 2427, etc.). Search any GA to open its catalog entry from the ~5,795-manuscript Kurzgefaßte Liste index.
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For ECM books, sliders reweight manuscripts cited in the apparatus by catalog date and material type to estimate which reading has stronger witness support at each variation unit. This is an exploratory visualization — not a substitute for the printed ECM.
Textual apparatus
The apparatus lists variant readings at this verse: Greek options (a, b, c…), GA manuscripts supporting each reading, and lacunose marks (zz) where a witness exists for the verse but has no readable text at that spot.

Sources

English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.

Manuscripts cited at this verse (ECM)Manuscripts cited in the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) apparatus at this specific verse — witnesses for textual variants here. This is usually a smaller set than the full book catalog.

90 cited at this verse in ECM · 327 total containing Revelation (237 more in book catalog below)

90 manuscripts cited at this verse in the ECM apparatus50010001500
11 without parseable catalog date:

Book catalogManuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.

327 manuscripts containing Revelation

Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.

327 manuscripts containing Revelation50010001500
15 without parseable catalog date:
John Gill's Expositionno entry

Gill has no entry for this exact verse. Browse the chapter on StudyLight ↗

ECM books show manuscripts cited at each verse plus the full book catalog (manuscripts whose content includes this book). Epistles and other non-ECM books show the book catalog only.

Textual ApparatusThe apparatus lists variant readings at this verse: Greek options (a, b, c…), GA manuscripts supporting each reading, and lacunose marks (zz) where a witness exists for the verse but has no readable text at that spot.

Apparatus conventions and abbreviations

The raw data follows the ECM/NT Greek tradition: each row pairs a reading siglum (how the editors label that option) with the manuscripts that support it—not every abbreviation is unpacked in the scholarly print volume, but these recur in this viewer.

  • om.omitted: witnesses on this row do not include the Greek word(s) printed for other readings at this place—an omission relative to manuscripts that attest the fuller text elsewhere in the apparatus.
  • a, b, c… — reading labels at this variation unit (first, second, third option). These are editorial sigla for Greek forms, not Gregory–Aland (GA) manuscript numbers.
  • GA numbers (01, P46, 2681…) — manuscripts cited by Gregory–Aland identifiers.
  • zzlacuna at this spot: counted for the verse but with no substantive text readable here when other witnesses have wording.
  • Word position — which Greek word/token in this verse each block refers to, numbered in the ECM segmentation used by the source data.

ECM witnesses at this verseGregory–Aland (GA) numbers identify Greek NT manuscripts (01 = Sinaiticus, P46, 2427, etc.). Search any GA to open its catalog entry from the ~5,795-manuscript Kurzgefaßte Liste index.90

90 manuscripts cited at this verse in the ECM apparatus

Papyri1
Majuscules6
Minuscules83

Book catalog241

327 manuscripts containing Revelation

Manuscripts containing Revelation that are not cited at this verse in ECM.

Papyri6
Minuscules230
Lectionaries5