What Does Daniel 11:29 Mean in the King James?
At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
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
A return can arrive at its appointed time without repeating the outcome of the last journey.
THE MEANING
The ruler returns south at the appointed time, but this campaign does not unfold as the former ones did. The verse holds the return and its outcome apart: the same direction does not guarantee the same result.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a familiar return must recreate an earlier outcome does not hold here.
THE ROOT
מוֹעֵד
mo'ed
GROWS FROM
יעד
To appoint, designate, or set a meeting.
“time appointed” in this verse is mo'ed. מוֹעֵד (mo’ed) means an appointed time or meeting: the return has a set moment. But its arrival does not lock the outcome into a previous pattern.
ALSO GROWS
mo'ed: An appointed time, meeting, or festival.
מוֹעֵד
The ruler’s return happens at a designated time, even though what follows differs from before.
ya'ad: To appoint, designate, or meet.
יָעַד
This verb shows the seed within the appointed time: something is set to meet its moment.
שׁוּב
shuv
GROWS FROM
שוב
To turn back or return.
“return” in this verse is shuv. שׁוּב (shuv) carries the motion of turning back. The ruler revisits a route toward the south, but the verse does not say that turning back restores the earlier result.
ALSO GROWS
shuv: To return or turn back.
שׁוּב
The word names the recurring movement at the center of the verse.
teshuvah: A return or turning back.
תְּשׁוּבָה
This related form makes the turn itself visible: returning means coming back around, not necessarily arriving at the same outcome.
THE PATTERN
An appointed time can bring a familiar movement back without restoring its former outcome.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,THE THREAD
And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.The preceding verse says that the kings’ scheme does not prosper because its end remains for the appointed time. The same מוֹעֵד (mo’ed), an appointed time, anchors the return in verse 29: its timing is set, but its outcome is not a replay.
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