What Does Daniel 6:23 Mean in the King James?

Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

Daniel 6:23 · KJV

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THE KEY

Daniel’s “believed” carries the root of firmness: his trust holds while the den is real.

THE MEANING

The den is real, yet it does not get the final word over Daniel. His trust is reliance on God, and the absence of injury makes that reliance visible.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Trust is not a claim that danger does not exist: the den is real, and Daniel trusts God within its danger.

THE ROOT

הֵימִן

hemin

GROWS FROM

אמן

aman

To be firm or reliable; to support.

The Aramaic word translated “believed” comes from ⁨אמן⁩ (aman), the root of firmness and reliability. English can make belief sound like an opinion; this root reveals trust as reliance, leaning your full weight on what is firm.

ALSO GROWS

emunah: Steadiness, trust, faithfulness.

אֱמוּנָה

This Hebrew branch shares the root and shows trust as a steady reliance, not merely an idea Daniel holds.

amen: Truly; firm, established.

אָמֵן

The familiar response carries the same root of firmness, linking Daniel’s trust with what is affirmed as reliable.

aman: To support, sustain, or confirm.

אָמַן

This verb makes the root’s image concrete: trust rests on support rather than on the absence of danger.

THE PATTERN

Trust can remain steady in danger, while deliverance reveals that danger has limits.

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Psalm 56:4 · KJVTrust is voiced while threat remains present, so fear does not define the whole situation.

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Hebrews 11:33 · KJVThe mouths of lions echo Daniel’s danger, while trust is associated with their power being restrained.

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

2 Timothy 4:17 · KJVDeliverance from the lion’s mouth makes danger’s limit visible without denying that it was real.

THE THREAD

O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

Psalm 31:23 · KJV

Daniel’s Aramaic “believed” and the Hebrew “faithful” here share the ⁨אמן⁩ (aman) root of firmness and reliability. English makes one sound like an act of belief and the other like a quality of character; the root reveals the same underlying steadiness.

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