Real Bible Translation - Revelation 2:27

And I will shepherd themselves within an iron wand,⁸ just like the Ceramic Tools are crushed to pieces! Also myself, I have taken hold close beside the Father of myself!

LITV Translation:
and "he will shepherd them with an iron staff" (they are "broken to pieces like clay vessels"), as I also have received from My Father. Psa. 2:8, 9

ESV Translation:
and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

Footnotes

Strong's #G4464 ῥάβδος rhabdos. This means rod, wand, or stick. It is something shorter than a typical walking staff. In the context of Ancient Greek poetry and literature, the term ῥάβδος refers to a line or verse of poetry. This is a more specialized or technical usage of the word.

Ancient Greek texts, including poetry and drama, were often analyzed and discussed in terms of their formal structure. Scholars and commentators would use specific terminology to describe parts of these texts. ῥάβδος (rhabdos) in this literary or scholarly sense refers to a line or verse within a poem or a piece of verse. This use reflects the idea of a "stave" or "line" of written text, analogous to how we use "line" to describe a single row of text in modern poetry.

Pindar the Poet

This usage of ῥάβδος is found in the scholia (commentary) on Pindar's Odes (Pindar's work, Book I, line 4.63). Scholarly annotations and commentaries on classical texts often used specific terms to describe textual elements and their analysis.

Considering the presence of the preposition ἐν "in/within a rod" which was ignored by interpreters, it makes more grammatical sense to take this meaning.

(cf. Logeion ῥάβδῳ)