Daniel 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`O Belteshazzar, master of the scribes, as I have known that the spirit of the holy gods `is' in thee, and no secret doth press thee, the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation, tell.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּ֣הּ שַׂגִּ֔יא וּמָז֨וֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵ֑הּ תְּחֹת֜וֹהִי תַּטְלֵ֣ל ׀ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֗א וּבְעַנְפ֙וֹהִי֙ *ידרון **יְדוּרָן֙ צִפֲּרֵ֣י שְׁמַיָּ֔א וּמִנֵּ֖הּ יִתְּזִ֥ין כָּל־בִּשְׂרָֽא׃

Transliteration

ʿāpəyēh šappîr wəʾinbēh śaggîʾ ûmāzôn ləḵōllāʾ-ḇēh təḥōṯôhî taṭlēl ḥêwaṯ bārāʾ ûḇəʿanpôhî yəḏûrān ṣippărê šəmayyāʾ ûminnēh yittəzîn kāl-biśrāʾ

Grammar Details

• *ʿāpəyēh*: noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its foliage
• *šappîr*: adjective, masculine singular - beautiful/fair
• *wəʾinbēh*: conjunction + noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and its fruit
• *śaggîʾ*: adjective, masculine singular - abundant/great
• *ûmāzôn*: conjunction + noun - and food
• *ləḵōllāʾ-ḇēh*: preposition + noun + preposition with 3rd person masculine suffix - for all in it
• *təḥōṯôhî*: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - under it
• *taṭlēl*: imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - found shade
• *ḥêwaṯ*: noun, feminine singular construct - beast of
• *bārāʾ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the field
• *ûḇəʿanpôhî*: conjunction + preposition + noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and in its branches
• *yəḏûrān*: imperfect 3rd person feminine plural - dwelled
• *ṣippărê*: noun, feminine plural construct - birds of
• *šəmayyāʾ*: noun with definite article - the heaven
• *ûminnēh*: conjunction + preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and from it
• *yittəzîn*: imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - were fed
• *kāl-biśrāʾ*: adjective + noun - all flesh

Word Meanings

• *šappîr*: beautiful/fair/lovely
• *taṭlēl*: found shade/sheltered/took refuge
• *yəḏûrān*: dwelled/lived/nested
• *yittəzîn*: were fed/were nourished

Referenced Verses

• Dan 2:48 : 48 Then the king hath made Daniel great, and many great gifts he hath given to him, and hath caused him to rule over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the perfects over all the wise men of Babylon.
• Dan 5:11 : 11 there is a man in thy kingdom in whom `is' the spirit of the holy gods: and, in the days of thy father, light, and understanding, and wisdom -- as the wisdom of the gods -- was found in him; and king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, chief of the scribes, enchanters, Chaldeans, soothsayers, established him -- thy father, O king --
• Dan 4:8 : 8 And at last come up before me hath Daniel, whose name `is' Belteshazzar -- according to the name of my god -- and in whom `is' the spirit of the holy gods, and the dream before him I have told:
• Dan 4:5 : 5 a dream I have seen, and it maketh me afraid, and the conceptions on my bed, and the visions of my head, do trouble me.
• Gen 41:38 : 38 and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God `is'?'
• Ezek 28:3 : 3 Lo, thou `art' wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.
• Dan 1:20 : 20 and `in' any matter of wisdom `and' understanding that the king hath sought of them, he findeth them ten hands above all the scribes, the enchanters, who `are' in all his kingdom.
• Dan 2:3-5 : 3 and the king saith to them, `A dream I have dreamed, and moved is my spirit to know the dream.' 4 And the Chaldeans speak to the king `in' Aramaean, `O king, to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the interpretation we do shew.' 5 The king hath answered and said to the Chaldeans, `The thing from me is gone; if ye do not cause me to know the dream and its interpretation, pieces ye are made, and your houses are made dunghills;
• Gen 11:6-8 : 6 and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. 7 Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.' 8 And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
• Gen 40:9-9 : 9 And the chief of the butlers recounteth his dream to Joseph, and saith to him, `In my dream, then lo, a vine `is' before me! 10 and in the vine `are' three branches, and it `is' as it were flourishing; gone up hath its blossom, its clusters have ripened grapes; 11 and Pharaoh's cup `is' in my hand, and I take the grapes and press them into the cup of Pharaoh, and I give the cup into the hand of Pharaoh.' 12 And Joseph saith to him, `This `is' its interpretation: the three branches are three days; 13 yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head, and hath put thee back on thy station, and thou hast given the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to the former custom when thou wast his butler. 14 `Surely if thou hast remembered me with thee, when it is well with thee, and hast done (I pray thee) kindness with me, and hast made mention of me unto Pharaoh, then hast thou brought me out from this house, 15 for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they have put me in the pit.' 16 And the chief of the bakers seeth that he hath interpreted good, and he saith unto Joseph, `I also `am' in a dream, and lo, three baskets of white bread `are' on my head, 17 and in the uppermost basket `are' of all `kinds' of Pharaoh's food, work of a baker; and the birds are eating them out of the basket, from off my head.' 18 And Joseph answereth and saith, `This `is' its interpretation: the three baskets are three days; 19 yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hath hanged thee on a tree, and the birds have eaten thy flesh from off thee.'
• Gen 41:15-36 : 15 And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I -- I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,' 16 and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, `Without me -- God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.' 17 And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: `In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River, 18 and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat `in' flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds; 19 and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean `in' flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness. 20 `And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine, 21 and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance `is' bad as at the commencement; and I awake. 22 `And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good; 23 and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them; 24 and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.' 25 And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, `The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh; 26 the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one; 27 and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine; 28 this `is' the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh. 29 `Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt, 30 and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land, 31 and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it `is' very grievous. 32 `And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it. 33 `And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt; 34 let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty, 35 and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh -- food in the cities; and they have kept `it', 36 and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.'
• Judg 7:13-15 : 13 And Gideon cometh in, and lo, a man is recounting to his companion a dream, and saith, `Lo, a dream I have dreamed, and lo, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it cometh in unto the tent, and smiteth it, and it falleth, and turneth it upwards, and the tent hath fallen.' 14 And his companion answereth and saith, `This is nothing save the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God hath given into his hand Midian and all the camp.' 15 And it cometh to pass, when Gideon heareth the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he boweth himself, and turneth back unto the camp of Israel, and saith, `Rise ye, for Jehovah hath given into your hand the camp of Midian.'
• 1 Sam 4:8 : 8 Wo to us, who doth deliver us out of the hand of these honourable gods? these `are' the gods who are smiting the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.
• Isa 33:18 : 18 Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where `is' he who is counting? Where `is' he who is weighing? Where `is' he who is counting the towers?
• Isa 54:14 : 14 In righteousness thou establishest thyself, Be far from oppression, for thou fearest not, And from ruin, for it cometh not near unto thee.
• Dan 4:18 : 18 `This dream I have seen, I king Nebuchadnezzar; and thou, O Belteshazzar, the interpretation tell, because that all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to cause me to know the interpretation, and thou `art' able, for the spirit of the holy gods `is' in thee.