Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
They cast dust (ebalon xoun). Second aorist active of ballw. Xouv is old word (from xew to pour) for heap of earth, dust, in N.T. only here and Mark 6:11. Cf. Ezekiel 27:30; Luke 10:13. This is the dirge of the sea-folk (cf. verses Revelation 18:10, Revelation 18:16).
By reason of her costliness (ek thv timiothtov authv). Occasionally in later literary Greek, though here only in N.T. and not in LXX. The same use of timh appears in I Peter 2:7. Common in the papyri as a title like "Your Honor" (Moulton and Milligan's Vocabulary).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 18:19:
Revelation 8:13
Revelation 11:8
Revelation 12:12
Revelation 17:12
Revelation 17:16
Revelation 18:8
Revelation 18:10
Revelation 18:11
Revelation 18:16
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