What Does Daniel 6:11 Mean in the King James?
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
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 men can find Daniel’s prayer, but they cannot become its audience.
THE MEANING
The verse puts the prayer in the open: these men find Daniel asking and pleading before his God. Their eyes reach him, but his appeal remains before God; being seen does not change who receives it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that being watched can turn prayer into a performance for watchers: the men see Daniel, yet the prayer is still before his God.
THE ROOT
מִתְחַנַּן
mithḥannan
GROWS FROM
חנן
ḥ-n-n
to show favor
This Aramaic form grows from ḥanan, the same root Hebrew uses for showing favor. Supplication here is an appeal for favor before God; the word itself points toward the quality the prayer seeks.
ALSO GROWS
ḥēn: favor
חֵן
This branch names what Daniel’s supplication appeals for.
ḥannūn: one who shows favor; gracious
חַנּוּן
This branch describes the one Daniel addresses, linking the plea to God’s nature.
בָּעֵא
bāʿēʾ
GROWS FROM
בְּעָא
b-ʿ-ʾ
to seek, ask, request
The Aramaic word translated “praying” means asking or seeking. The same root appears in the decree’s wording about asking a petition in Daniel 6:7, so the verse exposes the conflict in one word: Daniel remains found asking before God.
ALSO GROWS
lemibʿē: to seek, ask (Daniel 2:18)
לְמִבְעֵא
The same verb describes seeking God’s mercy, showing prayer as a direct appeal.
yibʿē: he asks, petitions (Daniel 6:7)
יִבְעֵא
The decree names the very act Daniel is found doing, tying his prayer to the pressure surrounding it.
THE PATTERN
Pressure may expose prayer to human eyes without changing the one before whom it is spoken.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,THE THREAD
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,Daniel’s Aramaic “making supplication” grows from ḥanan, the same root behind the Hebrew ḥannūn, “one who shows favor,” used here of the LORD. The prayer’s wording turns toward the favor-bearing nature of the one Daniel addresses.
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