Daniel 7:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

And shall speake wordes against the most High, and shall consume the Saintes of the most High, and thinke that he may change times and lawes, and they shalbe giuen into his hand, vntill a time, and times and the deuiding of time.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמִלִּין לְצַד עִלָּאָה יְמַלִּל וּלְקַדִּישֵׁי עֶלְיוֹנִּין יְבַלֵּא וְיִסְבַּר לְהַשְׁנָיָה זִמְנִין וְדָת וְיִתְיַהֲבוּן בִּידֵהּ עַד־עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְלַג עִדָּן

Transliteration

And millîn to side of 'illāʾāh yəmallil and to qaddîšê 'elyônîn yəḇallēʾ and yisbar to ləhašnāyāh zimnîn and ḏāṯ and yiṯyahaḇûn in his ḇîḏēh until 'iddān and 'iddānîn and pəlag 'iddān

Grammar Details

• *millîn*: feminine plural noun - words
• *'illāʾāh*: adjective, masculine singular, emphatic state - the Most High
• *yəmallil*: Pa'el imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will speak
• *qaddîšê*: masculine plural adjective, construct state - saints of
• *'elyônîn*: masculine plural adjective - most high
• *yəḇallēʾ*: Pa'el imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will wear out
• *yisbar*: Pe'al imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will think/intend
• *ləhašnāyāh*: Haph'el infinitive - to change
• *zimnîn*: masculine plural noun - times/seasons
• *ḏāṯ*: feminine singular noun - law/decree
• *yiṯyahaḇûn*: Hithpe'el imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will be given
• *ḇîḏēh*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his hand
• *'iddān*: masculine singular noun - time/period
• *'iddānîn*: masculine plural noun - times/periods
• *pəlag*: masculine singular construct - division/half of

Word Meanings

• *millîn*: words/matters/things
• *'illāʾāh*: the Most High/the Highest
• *yəmallil*: will speak/utter/proclaim
• *qaddîšê 'elyônîn*: saints of the Most High/holy ones of the Highest One
• *yəḇallēʾ*: will wear out/exhaust/harass
• *yisbar*: will think/intend/plan
• *ləhašnāyāh*: to change/alter/modify
• *zimnîn*: times/appointed seasons
• *ḏāṯ*: law/decree/statute
• *yiṯyahaḇûn ḇîḏēh*: they will be given into his hand/delivered into his power
• *'iddān wə'iddānîn ûpəlag 'iddān*: time, times and half a time/a year, two years and half a year

Referenced Verses

• Rev 12:14 : 14 But to the woman were giuen two wings of a great egle, that she might flie into the wildernes, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, & times, and halfe a time, from the presence of the serpent.
• Dan 12:7 : 7 And I heard ye man clothed in line which was vpon the waters of the riuer, when he helde vp his right hand, & his left hand vnto heauen, & sware by him that liueth for euer, that it shall tarie for a time, two times & an halfe: & when he shal haue accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
• Dan 2:21 : 21 And hee changeth the times & seasons: he taketh away kings: he setteth vp kings: he giueth wisedome vnto the wise, and vnderstanding to those that vnderstand.
• Dan 12:11-12 : 11 And fro the time that the daily sacrifice shalbe take away & the abominable desolatio set vp, there shalbe a thousand, two hundreth & ninetie daies. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth & commeth to the thousand, three hundreth & fiue & thirtie daies.
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Which is an aduersarie, and exalteth him selfe against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doeth sit as God in the Temple of God, shewing him selfe that he is God.
• Rev 11:2-3 : 2 But the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is giuen vnto the Gentiles, and the holy citie shall they treade vnder foote, two and fourtie moneths. 3 But I wil giue power vnto my two witnesses, and they shall prophecie a thousande two hundreth and threescore dayes, clothed in sackcloth.
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whome hast thou railed on and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, & lifted vp thine eyes on hie? euen against the holy one of Israel.
• Rev 12:6 : 6 And the woman fled into wildernes where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feede her there a thousande, two hundreth and three score dayes.
• Dan 7:20 : 20 Also to know of the tenne hornes that were in his head, and of the other which came vp, before whome three fell, and of the horne that had eyes, and of the mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, whose looke was more stoute then his fellowes.
• Rev 13:5-9 : 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen. 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. 11 And I beheld another beast coming vp out of the earth, which had two hornes like the Lambe, but he spake like the dragon.
• Rev 18:24 : 24 And in her was founde the blood of the Prophets, and of the Saints, and of all that were slaine vpon the earth.
• Rev 13:15-17 : 15 And it was permitted to him to giue a spirit vnto the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should speake, and should cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast, should be killed. 16 And he made all, both small and great, rich and poore, free and bond, to receiue a marke in their right hand or in their foreheads, 17 And that no man might buy or sell, saue hee that had the marke, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
• Rev 14:12 : 12 Here is the patience of Saints: here are they that keepe the commaundements of God, and the fayth of Iesus.
• Rev 16:6 : 6 For they shed the blood of the Saints, & Prophets, and therefore hast thou giuen them blood to drinke: for they are worthy.
• 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.
• Dan 8:24-25 : 24 And his power shalbe mightie, but not in his strength: and hee shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mightie, and the holy people. 25 And through his policie also, hee shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall extoll himselfe in his heart, and by peace shal destroy many: hee shall also stande vp against the prince of princes, but he shalbe broken downe without hand.
• Dan 11:28 : 28 Then shall he returne into his land with great substance: for his heart shall be against the holy couenant: so shall he doe and returne to his owne land.
• Dan 11:30-31 : 30 For the shippes of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shalbe sorie and returne, and freat against the holy couenant: so shall he doe, he shall euen returne and haue intelligence with them that forsake the holy couenant. 31 And armes shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the Sanctuarie of strength, and shall take away the dayly sacrifice, and they shall set vp the abominable desolation.
• Dan 11:36-38 : 36 And the King shall doe what him list: he shall exalt himselfe, and magnifie himselfe against all, that is God, & shall speake marueilous things against ye God of gods, & shall prosper, till ye wrath be accomplished: for ye determination is made. 37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desires of women, nor care for any God: for he shall magnifie himselfe aboue all. 38 But in his place shall he honour the god Mauzzim, and the god whom his fathers knewe not, shall he honour with golde and with siluer, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
• Dan 4:25 : 25 (4:22) That they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beasts of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse as the oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dewe of heauen: and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, till thou knowe, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whom so euer he will.
• Dan 4:32 : 32 (4:29) And they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse, as the oxen, and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, vntill thou knowest, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it vnto whomsoeuer he will.
• Dan 7:8 : 8 As I considered the hornes, beholde, there came vp among them another litle horne, before whome there were three of the first hornes pluckt away: and behold, in this horne were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things.
• Rev 11:7-9 : 7 And when they haue finished their testimonie, the beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit, shall make warre against them, and shall ouercome them, and kill them. 8 And their corpses shall lie in the streetes of the great citie, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord also was crucified. 9 And they of the people and kinreds, and tongues, and Gentiles shall see their corpses three dayes and an halfe, and shall not suffer their carkeises to be put in graues. 10 And they that dwell vpon the earth, shall reioyce ouer them and be glad, and shall sende giftes one to an other: for these two Prophets vexed them that dwelt on the earth.
• 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 Nowe the Spirit speaketh euidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall giue heede vnto spirits of errour, and doctrines of deuils, 2 Which speake lies through hypocrisie, & haue their cosciences burned with an hote yron, 3 Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.
• Rev 6:9-9 : 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. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Lord, which art holie and true! doest not thou iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?