What Does Daniel 12:13 Mean?
But go your way, until the end. For you shall rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.THE KEY
The end of the path is not the end of your place: rest gives way to standing in your allotted share.
THE MEANING
Your path can reach its limit without you being erased: rest is followed by standing in the share appointed to you. The verse holds repose and renewed belonging together, so the end of this stretch is not the end of your portion.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that rest means disappearance and that the final boundary leaves no place ahead.
THE ROOT
וְתַעֲמֹד
ve-ta'amod
GROWS FROM
עמד
To stand, remain, or take one’s stand.
The Hebrew verb עמד (ʿāmad, stand or remain) also forms words for establishing something and for a standing place. So “stand in thy lot” carries the sense of coming into an established place, not merely staying upright.
ALSO GROWS
he'emid: To make stand; to establish.
הֶעֱמִיד
A causative form of the same root appears in Psalm 30:7, where the speaker says the LORD made his mountain stand.
ʿammud: Pillar or column.
עַמּוּד
A pillar is something that stands; this branch lets “stand” suggest steadiness and a place held firm.
וְתָנוּחַ
ve-tanuach
GROWS FROM
נוח
To settle or rest.
The root נוח (nûaḥ, settle or rest) suggests coming to rest, not vanishing. Here that rest sits beside a later standing: what settles is still followed by a place to occupy.
ALSO GROWS
menuchah: Rest or a resting place.
מְנוּחָה
Rest can name a place of repose, giving the verse’s “rest” a sense of arrival rather than erasure.
hēnîaḥ: To let rest, set down, or place.
הֵנִיחַ
This related form makes rest sound like something laid down into a place, fitting the verse’s movement from repose to an allotted share.
THE PATTERN
A person’s appointed portion remains ahead of the present state, even when the path reaches rest.
The LORD is the portion of my share and of my cup; you hold fast my lot.And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground shall awake, some to the life of the ages, and some to exposure and contempt for the ages.into an inheritance that cannot be ruined, and cannot be stained, and cannot wither, kept in the heavens for you,THE THREAD
LORD, by your favor you made my mountain stand strong. You hid your face, and I was shaken.Daniel’s “stand” comes from עמד (ʿāmad, stand or remain), the same root behind “made my mountain to stand strong.” That shared verb lets “stand in thy lot” carry the sense of being established in a place and held there.
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