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Daniel

Judgment of God; God my judge Daniel is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “judgment of God; God my judge.” This unified study connects 9 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Strong’s
H1841, G1158, H1835, H1840
Hebrew
דָּנִיֵּאל · Dânîyêʼl
Greek
Δανιήλ · Daniēl
Name meaning
judgment of God; God my judge According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Δανιήλ

G1158
Transliteration
Daniēl
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-M-P
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Daniel

Lexicon definition

Δανιήλ, ὁ, indecl. (Heb. דָּנִיֵּאל, God is my Judge), Daniel, the prophet: Mat.24:15.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

דָּן

H1835
Transliteration
Dân
Pronunciation
dawn
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
69

Glosses

Daniel

Lexicon definition

Dan, one of the sons of Jacob

also the tribe descended from him, and its territory

likewise a place in Palestine colonized by them

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

דָנִיֵּאל

H1840
Transliteration
Dânîyêʼl
Pronunciation
daw-nee-yale'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
29

Glosses

Daniel.

Lexicon definition

Daniel or Danijel, the name of two Israelites

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

דָּנִיֵּאל

H1841
Transliteration
Dânîyêʼl
Pronunciation
daw-nee-yale'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
52

Glosses

Daniel.

Lexicon definition

Danijel, the Hebrew prophet

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Daniel

judgment of God; God my judge

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Daniel

Indexed occurrences: 76

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All Scripture references2,000 references

Genesis 80

Exodus 53

Leviticus 24

Numbers 41

Deuteronomy 50

Joshua 22

Judges 37

Ruth 3

1 Samuel 15

2 Samuel 12

1 Kings 18

2 Kings 19

1 Chronicles 19

2 Chronicles 27

Ezra 17

Nehemiah 25

Esther 16

Job 46

Psalms 117

Proverbs 43

Ecclesiastes 21

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 101

Jeremiah 80

Lamentations 10

Ezekiel 53

Daniel 154

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Jonah 4

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Zechariah 27

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Daniel

Meaning:
judgment of God; God my judge

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Scripture Connections

Matthew 1:23

Matthew presents the birth saying as the fulfillment of the word spoken through the prophet.

Matthew 2:6

Matthew cites Micah when identifying Bethlehem as the ruler's birthplace.

Matthew 3:3

Matthew explicitly identifies John the Baptist with Isaiah's wilderness herald.

Matthew 4:4

Yeshua directly quotes Deuteronomy in response to the wilderness temptation.

Romans 11:17

Jeremiah's green olive tree image provides important covenant background for Romans 11.

Hebrews 8:8

Hebrews quotes Jeremiah's new-covenant promise and develops its significance.

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Alexander the Great

The king of Macedonia, the great conqueror; probably represented in Daniel by the "belly of brass" (Dan. 2:32), and the leopard and the he-goat (7:6; 11:3, 4). He succeeded his father Philip, and died at the age of thirty-two from the effects of intemperance, B.C. 323. His empire was divided among his four generals.

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Ancient of Days

An expression applied to Yahweh three times in the vision of Daniel (7:9, 13, 22) in the sense of eternal. In contrast with all earthly kings, his days are past reckoning.

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Antiochus

The name of several Syrian kings from B.C. 280 to B.C. 65. The most notable of these were, (1.) Antiochus the Great, who ascended the throne B.C. 223. He is regarded as the "king of the north" referred to in Dan. 11:13-19. He was succeeded (B.C. 187) by his son, Seleucus Philopater, spoken of by Daniel (11:20) as "a raiser of taxes", in the Revised Version, "one that shall cause an exactor to pass through the glory of the kingdom." (2.) Antiochus IV., surnamed "Epiphanes" i.e., the Illustrious, succeeded his brother Seleucus (B.C. 175). His career and character are prophetically described by Daniel (11:21-32). He was a "vile person." In a spirit of revenge he organized an expedition against Jerusalem, which he destroyed, putting vast multitudes of its inhabitants to death in the most cruel manner. From this time the Jews began the great war of independence under their heroic Maccabean leaders with marked success, defeating the armies of Antiochus that were sent against them. Enraged at this, Antiochus marched against them in person, threatening utterly to exterminate the nation; but on the way he was suddenly arrested by the hand of death (B.C. 164).

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Chain

(1.) A part of the insignia of office. A chain of gold was placed about Joseph's neck (Gen. 41:42); and one was promised to Daniel (5:7). It is used as a symbol of sovereignty (Ezek. 16:11). The breast-plate of the high-priest was fastened to the ephod by golden chains (Ex. 39:17, 21). (2.) It was used as an ornament (Prov. 1:9; Cant. 1:10). The Midianites adorned the necks of their camels with chains (Judg. 8:21, 26). (3.) Chains were also used as fetters wherewith prisoners were bound (Judg. 16:21; 2 Sam. 3:34; 2 Kings 25:7; Jer. 39:7). Paul was in this manner bound to a Roman soldier (Acts 28:20; Eph. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:16). Sometimes, for the sake of greater security, the prisoner was attached by two chains to two soldiers, as in the case of Peter (Acts 12:6).

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Chaldees

Or Chaldeans, the inhabitants of the country of which Babylon was the capital. They were so called till the time of the Captivity (2 Kings 25; Isa. 13:19; 23:13), when, particularly in the Book of Daniel (5:30; 9:1), the name began to be used with special reference to a class of learned men ranked with the magicians and astronomers. These men cultivated the ancient Cushite language of the original inhabitants of the land, for they had a "learning" and a "tongue" (1:4) of their own. The common language of the country at that time had become assimilated to the Semitic dialect, especially through the influence of the Assyrians, and was the language that was used for all civil purposes. The Chaldeans were the learned class, interesting themselves in science and religion, which consisted, like that of the ancient Arabians and Syrians, in the worship of the heavenly bodies. There are representations of this priestly class, of magi and diviners, on the walls of the Assyrian palaces.

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Chileab

Protected by the father, David's second son by Abigail (2 Sam. 3:3); called also Daniel (1 Chr. 3:1). He seems to have died when young.

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Chittim

Or Kittim, a plural form (Gen. 10:4), the name of a branch of the descendants of Javan, the "son" of Japheth. Balaam foretold (Num. 24:24) "that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Eber." Daniel prophesied (11:30) that the ships of Chittim would come against the king of the north. It probably denotes Cyprus, whose ancient capital was called Kition by the Greeks. The references elsewhere made to Chittim (Isa. 23:1, 12; Jer. 2:10; Ezek. 27:6) are to be explained on the ground that while the name originally designated the Phoenicians only, it came latterly to be used of all the islands and various settlements on the sea-coasts which they had occupied, and then of the people who succeeded them when the Phoenician power decayed. Hence it designates generally the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean and the races that inhabit them.

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Daniel, Book of

Is ranked by the Jews in that division of their Bible called the Hagiographa (Heb. Khethubim). (See [144]BIBLE.) It consists of two distinct parts. The first part, consisting of the first six chapters, is chiefly historical; and the second part, consisting of the remaining six chapters, is chiefly prophetical. The historical part of the book treats of the period of the Captivity. Daniel is "the historian of the Captivity, the writer who alone furnishes any series of events for that dark and dismal period during which the harp of Israel hung on the trees that grew by the Euphrates. His narrative may be said in general to intervene between Kings and Chronicles on the one hand and Ezra on the other, or (more strictly) to fill out the sketch which the author of the Chronicles gives in a single verse in his last chapter: And them that had escaped from the sword carried he [i.e., Nebuchadnezzar] away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia'" (2 Chr. 36:20). The prophetical part consists of three visions and one lengthened prophetical communication. The genuineness of this book has been much disputed, but the arguments in its favour fully establish its claims. (1.) We have the testimony of Christ (Matt. 24:15; 25:31; 26:64) and his apostles (1 Cor. 6:2; 2 Thess. 2:3) for its authority; and (2) the important testimony of Ezekiel (14:14, 20; 28:3). (3.) The character and records of the book are also entirely in harmony with the times and circumstances in which the author lived. (4.) The linguistic character of the book is, moreover, just such as might be expected. Certain portions (Dan. 2:4; 7) are written in the Chaldee language; and the portions written in Hebrew are in a style and form having a close affinity with the later books of the Old Testament, especially with that of Ezra. The writer is familiar both with the Hebrew and the Chaldee, passing from the one to the other just as his subject required. This is in strict accordance with the position of the author and of the people for whom his book was written. That Daniel is the writer of this book is also testified to in the book itself (7:1, 28; 8:2; 9:2; 10:1, 2; 12:4, 5). (See [145]BELSHAZZAR.)

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Daniel

judgment of God; God my judge

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Den

A lair of wild beasts (Ps. 10:9; 104:22; Job 37:8); the hole of a venomous reptile (Isa. 11:8); a recess for secrecy "in dens and caves of the earth" (Heb. 11:38); a resort of thieves (Matt. 21:13; Mark 11:17). Daniel was cast into "the den of lions" (Dan. 6:16, 17). Some recent discoveries among the ruins of Babylon have brought to light the fact that the practice of punishing offenders against the law by throwing them into a den of lions was common.

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Presidents

Three presidents are mentioned, of whom Daniel was the first (Dan. 6:2-7). The name in the original is sarkhin, probably a Persian word meaning perfects or ministers.

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