What Does Daniel 12:6 Mean?
And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was upon the waters of the river, "How long shall it be until the end of these wonders?"
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
And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?THE KEY
“Wonders” names what exceeds ordinary human measure, so even the question of when they end rises from inside the mystery.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you in an unanswered “How long?” and names what surrounds you as wonders beyond ordinary measure. It gives no timetable; the question remains open within the mystery.
THE ROOT
הַפְּלָאוֹת
ha-pela'ot
GROWS FROM
פלא
To be extraordinary, to exceed the ordinary or human capacity.
The word translated “wonders” comes from a root for what lies beyond ordinary human doing or comprehension. Its family includes both the wonder itself and acts described as wondrous, joining the event to the limit of the one trying to measure it.
ALSO GROWS
pele: A wonder; an extraordinary thing.
פֶּלֶא
It names the exceptional quality contained in the “wonders” whose end is being asked about.
nifla'ot: Wondrous acts or things.
נִפְלָאוֹת
It describes acts that exceed ordinary measure, linking the verse’s wonders to what cannot easily be grasped or counted.
THE PATTERN
What exceeds human measure is named as wonder, whether it appears as deliverance, unsearchable works, or signs.
Who is like you among the mighty ones, O LORD? Who is like you, majestic in being set apart, awe-inspiring in praises, doing wonders?Who does great things beyond searching, and wonders without number.Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man shown forth by God among you through works of strength and wonders and signs, which God did through him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know.THE THREAD
Such perceiving is too wonderful for me; it is high, and I cannot reach it.The same root describes knowledge as too wonderful for the speaker to attain. Daniel’s question asks for the boundary of these wonders; this verse shows that the mind asking may not reach their full measure.
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