What Does Daniel 11:22 Mean in the King James?
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew repeats the root for “flood” in “overflown,” so the force that surges forward is itself swept away.
THE MEANING
A force surges like a flood, yet is swept aside and broken before him. The breaking reaches even the prince of the covenant, holding the violence of the collapse in full view.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the assumption that covenant standing makes its prince untouchable: the verse includes him in the breaking.
THE ROOT
שֶׁטֶף
sheṭef
GROWS FROM
שטף
To surge, sweep over, or wash away.
“flood / overflown” in this verse is sheṭef. “Flood” and “overflown” come from the same root: the image and the action echo one another in Hebrew. The invading force’s surge is not only overwhelming; it is itself swept away before him.
ALSO GROWS
sheṭifah: Washing or rinsing.
שְׁטִיפָה
The same root can describe water washing something away, extending the flood image into removal.
shotef: Flowing or sweeping over.
שׁוֹטֵף
This participial form keeps the sense of an active surge carried by the flood language.
יִשָּׁבֵרוּ
yiššāverū
GROWS FROM
שבר
To break or shatter.
“broken” in this verse is yiššāverū. The root names the forceful collapse of the flood’s arms and the prince of the covenant. Its branch מִשְׁבָּר (mishbar), “breaker” or “surf,” also carries the image of waves breaking, an echo that brings the verse’s flood and fracture together.
ALSO GROWS
shever: Fracture, breach, or ruin.
שֶׁבֶר
This noun makes the breaking in the verse legible as a breach or collapse.
mishbar: Breaker or surf.
מִשְׁבָּר
The word for breaking surf links this root to the verse’s surge of waters.
THE PATTERN
A force that sweeps across a scene can itself be swept aside and broken before a greater power.
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.THE THREAD
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.The Hebrew root שבר (shabar, “break”) behind “broken” here also appears in “broken heart.” Daniel uses it for political and covenantal collapse; Psalm 34 uses the same root for inner fracture, where the LORD is near.
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