Daniel 6:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and 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

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 thine 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 the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
• Heb 7:25 : 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Jas 1:25 : 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
• 1 Thess 5:17-18 : 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
• 2 Tim 4:16-18 : 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 71:14-18 : 14 But I will hope{H8762)} continually, and will yet praise thee more{H8689)} and more{H8689)}. 15 My mouth shall shew forth{H8762)} thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know{H8804)} not the numbers thereof. 16 I will go in{H8799)} the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention{H8686)} of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 17 O God, thou hast taught{H8765)} me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared{H8686)} thy wondrous works{H8737)}. 18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake{H8799)} me not; until I have shewed{H8686)} thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come{H8799)}.
• Ps 73:23 : 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden{H8804)} me by my right hand.
• Gen 18:14 : 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
• Num 11:23 : 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
• Prov 23:17-18 : 17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. 18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
• Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and 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 musick, 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 mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
• Luke 1:37 : 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
• Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• Dan 3:28-29 : 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and 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 any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
• 2 Cor 1:10 : 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
• Col 4:2 : 2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
• Acts 6:4 : 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
• Rom 2:7 : 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD 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 mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
• Ps 146:2 : 2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• Jude 1:24 : 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,