Daniel 8

1:1 (c-0) (The title of this book, ‘Daniel’), Meaning, ‘*God is judge.’

Daniel 8:2

8:2 fortress (e-20) See Nehemiah 1:1 .

Daniel 8:9

8:9 earth]. (f-29) Or ’the beautiful.’ It may be the land or the temple. see Ezekiel 20:6 ,Ezekiel 20:15 ; Daniel 11:16 ,Daniel 11:41 ,Daniel 11:45 ; see Psalms 50:2 .

Daniel 8:11

8:11 he (g-2) There is here a change of gender in the original, making the little horn more personal.

Daniel 8:12

8:12 trial (a-5) Or ‘distress;’ same word as ‘service,’ Numbers 4:3 ; ‘suffering,’ Isaiah 40:2 . it (b-17) i.e. the little horn. practised (c-27) Or ‘wrought,’ ‘did great things.’ see 1 Samuel 26:25 .

Daniel 8:13

8:13 one (d-13) The word denotes a certain unknown person. long (e-17) Or ‘Until when.’

Daniel 8:14

8:14 vindicated. (f-20) Lit. ‘justified.’

Daniel 8:15

8:15 vision, (g-12) Heb. chazan , from chozeh , seer, as vers. 1,2,13,26 (second time). appearance (h-28) Heb. mareh . Strictly ‘appearance,’ but rendered ‘vision’ in vers. 16,26 (first time), and 27; ch. 9.23.

Daniel 8:16

8:16 vision. (h-25) Heb. mareh . Strictly ‘appearance,’ but rendered ‘vision’ in vers. 16,26 (first time), and 27; ch. 9.23.

Daniel 8:17

8:17 vision (g-31) Heb. chazan , from chozeh , seer, as vers. 1,2,13,26 (second time).

Daniel 8:18

8:18 stood. (i-31) Or perhaps ‘set me upright,’ as ch. 10.11; Genesis 19:27 ; but cf. the preceding verse.

Daniel 8:21

8:21 rough (k-3) Lit. ‘hairy.’ Greece; (l-9) Javan , Genesis 10:2 .

Daniel 8:23

8:23 riddles, (m-25) Or ‘dark sentences,’ or ‘hard sentences,’ as ch. 5.12. see Numbers 12:8 ; or ‘wiles.’

Daniel 8:24

8:24 practise, (n-23) See ver. 12. saints. (o-35) Or ‘holy ones;’ Kodesh . see Psalms 89:7 .

Daniel 8:25

8:25 many; (p-27) Or ‘in [their] security shall destroy many.’ see Jeremiah 12:10 .

Daniel 8:26

8:26 vision, (g-21) Heb. chazan , from chozeh , seer, as vers. 1,2,13,26 (second time). vision (h-3) Heb. mareh . Strictly ‘appearance,’ but rendered ‘vision’ in vers. 16,26 (first time), and 27; ch. 9.23.

Daniel 8:27

8:27 vision, (a-25) See Note h ver. 16. understood (b-28) Or ’explained.’