Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
Daniel 5:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed.
- KJV
- TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- WEB
- TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
- ASV
- TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- LSV
- Weighed—You are weighed in the balances, and have been found lacking.
- YLT
- Weighed — Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
- DBY
- TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
- DRC
- THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
- GNV
- TEKEL, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light.
- JPS
- TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- LXXE
- Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃
- LXX-Br
- Θεκὲλ, ἐστάθη ἐν ζυγῷ, καὶ εὑρέθη ὑστεροῦσα.
Who and where
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
TekelBalanceBelshazzarMene, Mene, Tekel, UpharsinAramaic; Aramaic LanguageDaniel, Book ofHeathenLanguages of the Old TestamentWallsBabylon
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- 1 Corinthians 3:13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Ezekiel 22:18–20“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you…
- Matthew 22:11–12But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
- Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
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