Rev 18:17 | NETfull | STEP | because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast – seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off

Revelation of John 18:17

17 because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” ^{▼▼ On ἠρημώθη (ērēmōqē) L&N 20.41 states, “to suffer destruction, with the implication of being deserted and abandoned - ‘to be destroyed, to suffer destruction, to suffer desolation.’ ἐρημόομαι: μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἠρημώθη ὁ τοσοῦτος πλοῦτος ‘such great wealth has been destroyed within a single hour’ Re 18:17.”}
And every ship’s captain, ^{▼▼ On κυβερνήτης (kubernētēs) BDAG 574 s.v. 1 states, “one who is responsible for the management of a ship, shipmaster, lit. Rv 18:17.”} and all who sail along the coast ^{▼▼ Or perhaps, “everyone who sails as a passenger.” On πλέων (pleōn) BDAG 825 s.v. πλέω states, “πᾶς ὁ ἐπὶ τόπον πλέων everyone who sails to a place = seafarer, sea traveler…Rv 18:17. The vv.ll.…have led to various interpretations. Some render: everyone who sails along the coast…See EbNestle, Einführung in das Griech. NT 1909, 182; AFridrichsen, K. Hum. Vetensk.-Samf. i Upps. Årsb. ’43, 31 note ὁ ἐπίτοπον πλέων=one who sails occasionally, a passenger. - S. also IHeikel, StKr 106, ’34/’35, 317).”} – seamen, and all who ^{▼▼ Grk “and as many as.”} make their living from the sea, stood a long way off