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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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English
thumb|250px|right|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Conquest, War, Famine & Death (1887) by Viktor Vasnetsov
Alternative forms
en Four Horsemen Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Pronunciation
en en-au-Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.ogg AU
Proper noun
1 four horsemen of the Apocalypse
en biblical Four beings in Book of Revelation Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each en embody embodied as a en horseman riding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.
en 2024 Boris Kagarlitsky The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left 115 At the opening of the New Testament Book of Revelations, the end of the world is heralded by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, symbolising sickness, hunger, war and death.
en idiomatic Harbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.
en 2008 Shayna M. Steinfeld; Bruce R. Steinfeld The family lawyer's guide to bankruptcy: forms, tips, and strategies iii Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,... Here and now those dread specters are: Divorce, Illness, Unemployment and Overspending. These are now the harbingers of economic doom
en 2006 Ronald Brian Adler; Lawrence B. Rosenfeld; Russell F. Proctor Interplay: the process of interpersonal communication 305 [One authority] has identified four types of communication, which he calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," that are signs of a marriage having problems
Coordinate terms
white rider, White Rider: (Conquest or Pestilence)
red rider, Red Rider: (War)
black rider, Black Rider: (Famine)
pale rider, Pale Rider: (Death)
Translations
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Arabic: ar فرسان رؤيا يوحنا الأربعَة p
Bulgarian: bg
Catalan: ca Quatre Genets de l'Apocalipsi
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 啟示錄中的四騎士 Qǐshìlù zhōng de sì-jìshì
Czech: cs Apokalyptičtí jezdci, cs Čtyři apokalyptičtí jezdci
Danish: da de fire apokalyptiske ryttere c
Dutch: nl de vier ruiters van de Apocalyps
Esperanto: eo kvar rajdantoj de la apokalipso, eo kvar apokalipsaj rajdantoj
Finnish: fi Ilmestyskirjan neljä ratsastajaa, fi Ilmestyskirjan ratsastajat, fi Apokalyptiset ratsastajat
French: fr Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse m-p
German: de Apokalyptische Reiter, de vier apokalyptischen Reiter
Greek: el Τέσσερεις Καβαλάρηδες της Αποκάλυψης m-p
Hebrew: he אַרְבַּעַת פָּרָשֵׁי הָאָפּוֹקָלִיפְּסָה m-p Arbaat Parashei Ha-apokalippsah
Hungarian: hu Az Apokalipszis négy lovasa
Icelandic: is
Indonesian: id Empat Penunggang Kuda Akhir Zaman
Italian: it Cavalieri dell'Apocalisse m
Japanese: ja 黙示録の四騎士 mokushiroku no yon-kishi
Korean: ko 묵시록-의 네 기사
Latin: la quattuor equitēs apocalypticī m-p
Navajo: nv náhodeesdzáago dįltʼéego łį́į́ʼ bił níjééʼ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Apokalypsens fire ryttere m-p
Persian: fa
Polish: pl czterej jeźdźcy Apokalipsy vr-p
Portuguese: pt quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse m-p
Romanian: ro Cei patru călăreți ai Apocalipsei m-p
Russian: ru Четы́ре вса́дника Апока́липсиса m-p
Serbo-Croatian: sh
Slovak: sk
Spanish: es cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis m-p
Swedish: sv Apokalypsens fyra ryttare c-p
Thai: th
Turkish: tr Mahşerin Dört Atlısı
Ukrainian: uk Чоти́ри ве́ршники Апока́ліпсису m-p
Vietnamese: vi Tứ kị sĩ Khải Huyền
signs which combine to imply the imminence of destruction
Finnish: fi tuomiopäivän merkit p
Polish: pl czterej jeźdźcy Apokalipsy vr-p
Further reading
en Four Horses Mythological figures Personifications