Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
Daniel 5:28
In 11 translations
- BSB
- PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia.
- KJV
- PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- WEB
- PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.” PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
- ASV
- PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- LSV
- Divided—Your kingdom is divided, and it has been given to the Medes and Persians.”
- YLT
- Divided — Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'
- DBY
- PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- DRC
- PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
- GNV
- PERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.
- JPS
- PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'
- LXXE
- Phares; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃
- LXX-Br
- Φάρες, διήρηται ἡ βασιλεία σου, καὶ ἐδόθη Μήδοις καὶ Πέρσαις.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
MedesBelshazzarPeresUpharsinMene, Mene, Tekel, UpharsinAramaic; Aramaic LanguageMedes, MediaPersiansDaniel, Book ofHeathen
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
- Daniel 6:28So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
- Daniel 5:31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
- Isaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- Isaiah 45:1–2This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut: “I will go before you…
- Daniel 8:20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
- Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —
- Daniel 8:3–4Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later. I saw the ram charging toward the west and the…
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