What Does Daniel 12:5 Mean in the King James?
Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
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 river is not background: the two figures stand on its opposite banks, making the boundary itself the center of the vision.
THE MEANING
You meet a vision arranged around a boundary: two figures stand on opposite banks, and their positions come into focus before their purpose is explained. The space between them remains part of what you are seeing now.
THE ROOT
עֹמְדִים
omdim
GROWS FROM
עמד
amad
To stand, remain, or take one’s place.
English stood can sound like a passing posture, but עמד holds together standing, remaining, and taking a position. Here the two figures are presented as standing on opposite sides of the river; related words for a pillar and a station carry that same quality of being set in place.
ALSO GROWS
amad: To stand, remain, or take a position.
עָמַד
The verb makes the figures’ position part of the scene, not merely an incidental detail.
ammud: A pillar or column.
עַמּוּד
A pillar is something that stands, carrying the root’s sense of a position held in place.
ma'amad: A standing place, station, or position.
מַעֲמָד
This branch echoes the way each figure occupies a distinct position across the river.
THE PATTERN
At waters that mark a threshold, the vision makes each figure’s position visible before the passage or message unfolds.
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,THE THREAD
And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.The command to stand upright here uses עמד (amad, stand), the same root that describes the figures in Daniel 12:5. Daniel’s own standing position is thus linked to the later vision’s figures, whose positions across the river hold the scene in view.
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