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Daniel 7:4 KJV
Daniel · chapter 7 · verse 4
The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.Daniel 7:4 · King James Version
Daniel 7:4 in context
2Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
5And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- eagle'snᵉsharan eagleH5403 →
- pluckedmᵉraṭto pull offH4804 →
- beheldhâvâʼto existH1934 →
- beheldchăzâʼto gaze uponH2370 →
- firstqadmayfirstH6933 →
- wingsgapha wingH1611 →
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The date of this chapter places it before ch. 5, which was in the last year of Belshazzar, and ch. 6, which was in the first of Darius; for Daniel had those visions in the first year of Belshazzar, when the captivity of the Jews in Babylon was drawing near a period.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8