What Does Daniel 12:12 Mean in the King James?
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
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
Here flourishing stands at the far edge of the wait: the one who waits is the one who reaches the stated measure.
THE MEANING
Flourishing belongs to the one who waits through the stated span and reaches its far edge. The verse holds the days and the arrival together in a single line.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a long wait disqualifies the one waiting from flourishing; here, the one who waits and reaches the measure is called flourishing.
THE ROOT
הַמְחַכֶּה
hamĕḥakkêh
GROWS FROM
חכה
To wait for, look for, or tarry in expectation.
“waiteth” in this verse is hamĕḥakkêh. The participle describes a person in the act of waiting, and the same root appears in the call to “wait for it” in Habakkuk and “they that wait for him” in Isaiah. This is expectation held through an interval, paired here with reaching the stated measure.
ALSO GROWS
ḥakkêh: Wait for the vision.
חַכֵּה
Habakkuk uses this form for waiting through delay until the appointed outcome arrives.
ḥōkê: Those who wait for him.
חוֹכֵי
Isaiah pairs this same root with flourishing, echoing Daniel’s image of the one who waits.
וְיַגִּיעַ
wəyaggîaʿ
GROWS FROM
נגע
To touch, reach, or arrive at.
The verb translated “cometh” belongs to a root whose basic sense is touching or reaching. The English can sound like reaching a date; the Hebrew also carries the sense of coming into contact with the far edge of the wait.
ALSO GROWS
nāgaʿ: To touch or come into contact.
נָגַע
This is the root’s basic verb sense, present beneath the word for arriving at the stated days.
negaʿ: A touch, stroke, or affliction.
נֶגַע
This noun preserves the root’s sense of contact, making the arrival in Daniel feel like reaching a real boundary.
THE PATTERN
Flourishing accompanies the one who remains in the wait until the stated arrival.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.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.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.THE THREAD
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.Isaiah pairs “blessed” with “they that wait,” echoing Daniel’s pairing of flourishing with the one who waits. The waiting word comes from the same root in both verses, so the connection is carried by the Hebrew itself.
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