Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
They had (eixan). Imperfect active, late form as in Mark 8:7 in place of the usual eixon.
As hair of women (wv trixav gunaikwn). That is long hair (I Corinthians 11:15), with no reference to matters of sex at all, for anqrwpwn just before is used, not andrwn (men as distinct from women). Perhaps the antennae of the locust were unusually long.
As the teeth of lions (wv leontwn). Supply oi odontev (the teeth) before leontwn. See Joel 1:6. The locust is voracious.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 9:8:
Luke 8:31
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