Daniel 5:16

And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
I	וַאֲנָה֙ va.'a.Nah	H576	I · conjunction + personal pronoun
heard	שִׁמְעֵ֣ת shim.'Et	H8086	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
thee	עֲלָ֔ךְ a.la.yikh	H5922	above · preposition + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
canst	תִיכּ֥וּל tu.khal	H3202	to be able · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
make	לְמִפְשַׁ֖ר le.mif.Shar	H6590	to interpret · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
interpretations	פִּשְׁרִ֛ין pish.Rin	H6591	an interpretation · noun, common masculine plural absolute
dissolve

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Daniel 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylo…
Genesis 40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong…
Daniel 5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning…
Acts 8:18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:10-29

Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of Evil-Merodach, and was that famous Nitocris whom Herodotus mentions as a woman of extraordinary prudence. She was not present at the feast, as the king's wives and concubines were (Dan 5:2); it was not agreeable to her age and gravity to keep a merry night. But, tidings of the fright which the king and his lords were put into being brought to her apartment, she came herself to the banqueting-house, to recommend to the king a physician for his melancholy. She entreated him not to be discouraged by the insu…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 5:13

the captivity of Judah--the captive Jews residing in Babylon.

Adam Clarke on Daniel 5:16

Dissolve doubts - Untie knots - unbind what is bound. An expression used in the east to signify a judge of eminent wisdom and skill.

John Gill on Daniel 5:16

And I have heard of thee,.... That is, by the queen, which he repeats for the sake of observing what she had said of him, and which gave him encouragement to send for him: that thou canst make interpretations; of dreams, and of things hard to be understood: and dissolve doubts; untie knots, solve difficulties, and answer hard and intricate questions: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof; that which is upon the wall before thee, and which the wise men of Babylon could not: thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom; the same reward he had proposed to the astrologers…

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John Calvin

Dictionary and topics

Babel — (confusion), Bab’ylon (Greek form of Babel), is properly the capital city of the country which is called in Genesis Shinar, and in the later books Chaldea, or the land of the Chaldeans. The first…
Belshazzar — Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan. 5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal-sharezer. When still young…
Colour — The subject of colours holds an important place in the Scriptures. White occurs as the translation of various Hebrew words. It is applied to milk (Gen. 49:12), manna (Ex. 16:31), snow (Isa. 1:18),…
Daniel — God is my judge, or judge of God. (1.) David’s second son, “born unto him in Hebron, of Abigail the Carmelitess” (1 Chr. 3:1). He is called also Chileab (2 Sam. 3:3). (2.) One of the four great…
Belshazzar · King of Babylon — King of Babylon
Colors · .Of royalty — .Of royalty

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Daniel 5:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:10-29

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 5:13

Adam Clarke on Daniel 5:16

John Gill on Daniel 5:16

John Calvin

Dictionary and topics

Daniel 5:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:10-29

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 5:13

Adam Clarke on Daniel 5:16

John Gill on Daniel 5:16

John Calvin

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Daniel 5:13-28

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Daniel 5:15

Rashi on Daniel 5:16