What Does Daniel 2:36 Mean?
This is the dream, and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
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
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.THE KEY
Meaning becomes shareable when the dream is named and its interpretation is brought into the open.
THE MEANING
What is hidden can become speakable without being confused with what holds it: the dream is one thing, its interpretation another. Meaning comes into the open as something that can be told even before power, rather than remaining locked inside private experience.
THE ROOT
פִּשְׁרֵהּ
pishrēh
GROWS FROM
פשר
p-sh-r
To interpret or explain; its interpretation.
“interpretation thereof” in this verse is pishrēh. The Aramaic root appears as both an act of interpreting and the interpretation itself: meaning is made intelligible and then spoken. The ending in פִּשְׁרֵהּ means “its,” tying the interpretation to this particular dream.
ALSO GROWS
peshar: To interpret or explain.
פְּשַׁר
This verbal form shows the active process behind the interpretation that is told.
pishrā: Interpretation or explanation.
פִּשְׁרָא
This noun names the meaning brought into speech; here, the possessive form makes it the interpretation of this dream.
THE PATTERN
Meaning hidden in a dream or mystery becomes speakable through interpretation that is received and then told.
But as for me, this hidden thing has not been uncovered to me for any wisdom I have more than any of the living, but for the sake of those who will make known the interpretation to the king, and so that you might perceive the thoughts of your heart.And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to loose it. And Joseph said to them, Do not loosings belong to God? Tell me them, I pray you.But God unveiled them to us through his breath, for the breath searches all things, even the depths of God.THE THREAD
But as for me, this hidden thing has not been uncovered to me for any wisdom I have more than any of the living, but for the sake of those who will make known the interpretation to the king, and so that you might perceive the thoughts of your heart.The Aramaic word פִּשְׁרָא (pishrā, interpretation) belongs to the same root פשר (p-sh-r, interpret or explain) that appears here. Verse 30 says the secret is disclosed so its interpretation can be made known; this verse carries that meaning into speech before the king.
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