What Does Daniel 2:22 Mean in the King James?
He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
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 hidden does not have to disappear before it is known: even what lies in darkness is already within the reach of the light that dwells with God.
THE MEANING
What feels buried or impossible to name in your life is still within God’s knowing. The light is not absent from that depth; it dwells with him, and he reveals what is concealed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what remains hidden in your darkness is therefore beyond God’s knowing.
THE ROOT
גָּלֵא
galē
GROWS FROM
גלה
To uncover or reveal.
“revealeth” in this verse is galē. Daniel’s Aramaic word for revealing shares the root גלה (galah, to uncover or reveal) with Hebrew forms for what has been opened or disclosed. Revelation here is an uncovering: what was concealed is brought into view, while the verse also says it is already known in darkness.
ALSO GROWS
gilluy: Disclosure, revelation.
גִּלּוּי
A disclosure is what has been uncovered; the branch keeps revelation tied to the removal of what concealed it.
galuy: Uncovered, open, exposed.
גָּלוּי
This names the state after a covering comes away, echoing the passage’s movement from secret things to revelation.
מְסַתְּרָתָא
mesattərātā
GROWS FROM
סתר
To hide or conceal.
“secret” in this verse is mesattərātā. The verse sets the language of uncovering beside a word from the root for hiding. What is hidden is not outside God’s knowing: the darkness holds what he already knows, and the concealed can be revealed.
ALSO GROWS
sēter: A hiding place; something concealed.
סֵתֶר
The same root names a place of concealment and the secret things the verse says God reveals.
histir: To hide or conceal.
הִסְתִּיר
This verb makes the concealed quality active; the verse says even what is hidden remains known.
THE PATTERN
What is concealed remains within God’s knowing, and what is hidden can be brought into the light.
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.THE THREAD
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.Job’s מְגַלֶּה (megalleh, uncovers or reveals) shares the root גלה (galah, to uncover or reveal) with Daniel’s Aramaic גָּלֵא (galē, reveals). Job pictures the same uncovering: what darkness holds is brought into the light.
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