Daniel 11:33

Geneva Bible (1560)

And they that vnderstand among the people, shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by sword, & by flame, by captiuitie & by spoile many dayes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמַשְׂכִּ֣ילֵי עָ֔ם יָבִ֖ינוּ לָֽרַבִּ֑ים וְנִכְשְׁל֞וּ בְּחֶ֧רֶב וּבְלֶהָבָ֛ה בִּשְׁבִ֥י וּבְבִזָּ֖ה יָמִֽים׃

Transliteration

û-maśkîlê ʿām yābînû lā-rabbîm wə-nikšəlû bə-ḥereb û-bə-lehābāh bi-šəbî û-bə-bizzāh yāmîm

Grammar Details

• *û-maśkîlê*: conjunction + participle hiphil, masculine plural construct - and ones making wise/instructing
• *ʿām*: noun, masculine singular - people
• *yābînû*: imperfect hiphil, 3rd masculine plural - they will cause to understand/instruct
• *lā-rabbîm*: preposition + article + adjective, masculine plural - to the many
• *wə-nikšəlû*: conjunction + perfect niphal, 3rd common plural - and they will stumble/fall
• *bə-ḥereb*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - by sword
• *û-bə-lehābāh*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular - and by flame
• *bi-šəbî*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - by captivity
• *û-bə-bizzāh*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular - and by plunder
• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - days

Word Meanings

• *maśkîlê*: ones making wise/instructors/teachers/those having insight
• *ʿām*: people/nation/folk
• *yābînû*: cause to understand/instruct/teach/give understanding
• *rabbîm*: many/numerous/great/abundant
• *nikšəlû*: stumble/fall/be brought down/be overthrown
• *ḥereb*: sword/knife/dagger
• *lehābāh*: flame/blaze/fire
• *šəbî*: captivity/exile/imprisonment
• *bizzāh*: plunder/spoil/booty
• *yāmîm*: days/time/period

Referenced Verses

• Mal 2:7 : 7 For the Priestes lippes shoulde preserue knowledge, and they shoulde seeke the Lawe at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lorde of hostes.
• John 16:2 : 2 They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.
• Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shal they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my Names sake.
• Heb 11:34 : 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sworde, of weake were made strong, waxed valiant in battell, turned to flight the armies of the aliants.
• Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shalbe purified, made white, & tried: but the wicked shall doe wickedly, and none of the wicked shall haue vnderstanding: but the wise shall vnderstand.
• Zech 8:20-23 : 20 Thus saith the Lord of hostes, That there shall yet come people, and the inhabitants of great cities. 21 And they that dwell in one citie, shal go to another, saying, Vp, let vs go & pray before the Lord, and seeke the Lord of hostes: I wil go also. 22 Yea, great people and mightie nations shal come to seeke the Lorde of hostes in Ierusalem, and to pray before the Lord. 23 Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, In those dayes shall ten men take holde out of all languages of the nations, euen take holde of the skirt of him that is a Iewe, and say, We will go with you: for we haue heard that God is with you.
• Isa 32:3-4 : 3 The eyes of the seeing shal not be shut, and the eares of them that heare, shall hearken. 4 And the heart of the foolish shall vnderstand knowledge, and the tongue of the stutters shalbe ready to speake distinctly.
• Dan 12:3-4 : 3 And they that be wise, shal shine, as ye brightnes of the firmament: and they that turne many to righteousnes, shal shine as the starres, for euer & euer. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut vp the words, and seale the boke til the end of the time: many shal run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
• Matt 10:21 : 21 And the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shal rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.
• Matt 13:11 : 11 And he answered, & said vnto them, Because it is giuen vnto you, to know the secretes of the kingdome of heauen, but to the it is not giue.
• Matt 13:51-52 : 51 Iesus saide vnto them, Vnderstand yee all these things? They saide vnto him, Yea, Lord. 52 Then sayd hee vnto them, Therefore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen, is like vnto an householder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things both newe and olde.
• Matt 20:23 : 23 And he said vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of my cup, and shall be baptized with the baptisme, that I am baptized with, but to sit at my right hande, and at my left hand, is not mine to giue: but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared of my Father.
• Acts 4:2-4 : 2 Taking it grieuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus Name the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide. 4 Howbeit, many of them which heard the word, beleeued, and the number of the men was about fiue thousand.
• Acts 11:26 : 26 And when he had founde him, he brought him vnto Antiochia: and it came to passe that a whole yere they were conuersant with ye Church, and taught much people, in so much that the disciples were first called Christians in Antiochia.
• Acts 12:2-3 : 2 And he killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword. 3 And when he sawe that it pleased the Iewes, he proceeded further, to take Peter also (then were the dayes of vnleauened bread.)
• Acts 14:21 : 21 And after they had preached the glad tidings of the Gospel to that citie, and had taught many, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antiochia,
• 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed: for I knowe whom I haue beleeued, and I am persuaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed to him against that day.
• 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 But the seruant of ye Lord must not striue, but must be gentle toward all men, apt to teache, suffering the euill, 25 Instructing them with meekenesse that are contrary minded, prouing if God at any time will giue them repentance, that they may acknowledge the trueth,
• 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am nowe readie to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand.
• Heb 11:36-38 : 36 And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandred vp and downe in sheepes skinnes, and in goates skinnes, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented: 38 Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.
• Rev 1:9 : 9 I Iohn, euen your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ, was in the yle called Patmos, for the worde of God, & for the witnessing of Iesus Christ.
• Rev 2:13 : 13 I knowe thy workes and where thou dwellest, euen where Satans throne is, and thou keepest my Name, and hast not denied my faith, euen in those dayes when Antipas my faithfull martyr was slaine among you, where Satan dwelleth.
• Rev 6:9 : 9 And when hee had opened the fifth seale, I sawe vnder the altar the soules of them, that were killed for the worde of God, and for the testimonie which they mainteined.
• Rev 7:14 : 14 And I saide vnto him, Lorde, thou knowest; he saide to me, These are they, which came out of great tribulation, and haue washed their long robes, and haue made their long robes white in the blood of the Lambe.
• Rev 13:7-9 : 7 And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them, & power was giuen him ouer euery kinred, and tongue, and nation. 8 Therefore all that dwell vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of life of that Lambe, which was slaine from the beginning of the world. 9 If any man haue an eare, let him heare. 10 If any leade into captiuitie, hee shall go into captiuitie: if any kill with a sword, he must be killed by a sword: here is the patience and the faith of the Saints.
• Rev 17:6 : 6 And I sawe ye woman drunken with the blood of Saintes, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesvs: and when I sawe her, I wondred with great marueile.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to obserue all things, whatsoeuer I haue commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, vntill the ende of the worlde, Amen.
• Luke 24:44-47 : 44 And he saide vnto them, These are the wordes, which I spake vnto you while I was yet with you, that all must be fulfilled which are written of me in the Lawe of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalmes. 45 Then opened he their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the Scriptures, 46 And said vnto them, Thus is it written, and thus it behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise againe from the dead the third day, 47 And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.