What Does Daniel 4:24 Mean in the King James?
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
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 interpretation is not merely an explanation of the king’s dream; it names the Most High’s decree already reaching him.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you where understanding becomes consequence: the Most High’s decree is already reaching the king. No height of rank places him beyond what the interpretation names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The king’s authority can put him beyond the reach of what is decreed.
THE ROOT
גְּזֵרָה
gezērāh
GROWS FROM
גזר
g-z-r
To cut or divide; in Aramaic usage, to decide or decree.
The root carries the sense of cutting and of issuing a decree: a decision draws a line around what will happen. Here, the dream’s meaning is not left open-ended; the decree has already reached the king.
ALSO GROWS
gazar: To cut; in Aramaic, to decide or decree.
גְּזַר
The cutting sense gives a decree the feel of a boundary set around what will happen.
gezērāh: Decree, decision.
גְּזֵרָה
This is the word in the verse: the dream’s meaning is stated as a decision of the Most High.
פִּשְׁרָא
pishrā
GROWS FROM
פשר
p-sh-r
To interpret or explain, making what is hidden or puzzling intelligible.
The verse places interpretation beside decree, so the explanation does more than clarify the dream: it identifies what is unfolding. The English keeps both words, while their pairing reveals that meaning and consequence arrive together.
ALSO GROWS
peshar: To interpret or explain.
פְּשַׁר
The verb names the act from which the noun interpretation comes: making the dream legible.
pishrin: Interpretations.
פִּשְׁרִין
This plural form appears in Daniel 5:16, where interpretation makes hidden things intelligible.
THE PATTERN
When God reveals what a sign means, the explanation names what is moving toward fulfillment.
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:THE THREAD
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.Daniel 2:45 uses the same Aramaic word פִּשְׁרָא (pishrā, meaning “interpretation”): there, the dream is made legible as what will come to pass. Here, interpretation also names the decree already reaching the king.
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