Daniel 6:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֵּאדַ֣יִן מַלְכָּ֔א בִּשְׁפַּרְפָּרָ֖א יְק֣וּם בְּנָגְהָ֑א וּבְהִ֨תְבְּהָלָ֔ה לְגֻבָּ֥א דִֽי־אַרְיָוָתָ֖א אֲזַֽל׃

Transliteration

Then bēʾdayin the malkāʾ at šəparpārāʾ yəqûm at nāgəhāʾ, and in hitbəhālāh to gubbāʾ dî ʾaryāwātāʾ he ʾăzal.

Grammar Details

*bēʾdayin*: Aramaic adverb - then, at that time
*malkāʾ*: noun, masculine singular emphatic - the king
*šəparpārāʾ*: noun, masculine singular emphatic - the dawn/early morning
*yəqûm*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he arose
*nāgəhāʾ*: noun, masculine singular emphatic - the daylight/morning light
*hitbəhālāh*: infinitive construct with prefixed preposition - in haste/with alarm
*gubbāʾ*: noun, masculine singular emphatic - the den/pit
*dî*: relative particle - that/which/of
*ʾaryāwātāʾ*: noun, masculine plural emphatic - the lions
*ʾăzal*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he went

Word Meanings

*šəparpārāʾ*: dawn/early morning/daybreak
*nāgəhāʾ*: daylight/morning light/brightness
*hitbəhālāh*: in haste/with alarm/anxiously

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Referenced Verses

Dan 3:17 : 17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king.
Dan 6:16 : 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
Dan 6:27 : 27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
1 Chr 16:11 : 11 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
Heb 7:25 : 25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Jas 1:25 : 25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.
1 Thess 5:17-18 : 17 pray without ceasing; 18 in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.
2 Tim 4:16-18 : 16 At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account. 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 {G2532} The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Ps 71:14-18 : 14 But I will hope continually, And will praise thee yet more and more. 15 My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof]. 16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
Ps 73:23 : 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden my right hand.
Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.
Num 11:23 : 23 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Is Jehovah's hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Prov 23:17-18 : 17 Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long: 18 For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,
Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Hos 12:6 : 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.
Luke 1:37 : 37 For no word from God shall be void of power.
Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Dan 3:28-29 : 28 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort.
2 Cor 1:10 : 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
Col 4:2 : 2 Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
Acts 6:4 : 4 But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.
Rom 2:7 : 7 to them that by patience in {G18} well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Ps 119:112 : 112 I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes For ever, even unto the end.
Ps 146:2 : 2 While I live will I praise Jehovah: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Jude 1:24 : 24 Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy,

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11Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
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