Daniel 11:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now when they fall, they shall receive a little help; but many shall join them with flatteries.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְהִכָּ֣שְׁלָ֔ם יֵעָזְר֖וּ עֵ֣זֶר מְעָ֑ט וְנִלְו֧וּ עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם רַבִּ֖ים בַּחֲלַקְלַקּֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

And in their hikaš·lām [stumbling] they shall be yə'āzərū [helped] 'ēzer [help] mə'āṭ [little/small], and shall nilwū [join] unto them many with ḥălaqlaqqōwt [flatteries/smooth things].

Grammar Details

• *hikaš·lām*: Niphal infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their being caused to stumble/fall'
• *yə'āzərū*: Niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they will be helped'
• *'ēzer*: masculine singular noun - 'help/assistance'
• *mə'āṭ*: adjective masculine singular - 'little/small/few'
• *nilwū*: Niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they will join/be joined'
• *ḥălaqlaqqōwt*: feminine plural noun - 'slippery places/smooth things/flatteries'

Word Meanings

• *hikaš·lām*: stumbling/falling/failure
• *'ēzer*: help/assistance/aid
• *mə'āṭ*: little/small/few/insignificant
• *ḥălaqlaqqōwt*: slippery places/flatteries/smooth words/hypocrisy

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  When they stumble, they will receive some help, but many who join them will do so with hypocrisy.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Now whe they fall, they shalbe set vp with a litle helpe: but many shal cleue vnto them faynedly.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nowe when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a litle helpe: but many shall cleaue vnto them fainedly.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Nowe when they shall fall, they shalbe holpen with a litle helpe, but many shall cleaue vnto them faynedly.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And in their stumbling, they are helped -- a little help, and joined to them have been many with flatteries.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When they stumble, they will be granted some help. But many will unite with them deceitfully.

Referenced Verses

• Rom 16:18 : 18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites; and by smooth talk and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocent.
• Matt 7:15 : 15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
• Acts 20:29-30 : 29 For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
• Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
• 1 Tim 4:1-2 : 1 Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
• 2 Tim 3:1-7 : 1 Know this also, that in the last days perilous times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those who are good, 4 Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away. 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
• 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
• 2 Pet 2:18-19 : 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
• 1 John 2:18-19 : 18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
• 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
• Rev 12:2-6 : 2 And she was with child, and she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she gave birth to a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, so that she might be nourished there for one thousand two hundred sixty days.
• Rev 12:13-13:4 : 13 And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. 14 But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time, times, and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent. 15 And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon poured out of his mouth. 17 So the dragon became enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. 1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like a bear's feet, and his mouth like a lion's mouth; and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon who gave power to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
• Rev 13:11-14 : 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he performs great signs, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.