What Does Daniel 6:7 Mean in the King James?
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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 decree’s claim to permanence is manufactured: the same Aramaic root means both to make something stand and the standing statute itself.
THE MEANING
This verse exposes a familiar move: a governing circle turns its agreement into a rule designed to stand, then narrows every request for thirty days to the ruler alone. The restriction centralizes whom people may ask.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a rule becomes just because powerful people agree on it: here, their agreement serves to redirect every request toward the king.
THE ROOT
לְקַיָּמָה
leqayyāmā
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise, stand, or remain established.
The Aramaic phrase ties “establish” to the noun “statute”: the leaders make a standing rule stand. The repetition reveals permanence as something power is trying to produce, not an authority the decree already possesses.
ALSO GROWS
qûm: Rise; stand.
קוּם
The decree’s language of establishment carries the root’s concrete sense of something rising and remaining upright.
qĕyām: A decree or established statute in Aramaic.
קְיָם
This is the statute the leaders want to make stand, from the same root as the verb “establish.”
hēqîm: Cause to stand; establish in Hebrew.
הֵקִים
This related form presents establishment as an act that makes something stand, illuminating the decree as a deliberate construction.
THE PATTERN
Power narrows people’s access to appeal by turning coordinated intent into binding command.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.THE THREAD
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.The next verse repeats the same root: the decree is made to stand and then declared unchangeable. The echo reveals how this law’s apparent permanence is built through a ruler’s signature.
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