What Does Daniel 7:11 Mean in the King James?
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
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 horn’s speech holds the vision’s attention, but judgment reaches the beast’s body and ends it.
THE MEANING
A voice claiming greatness can fill your hearing, yet it cannot keep the power behind it from being killed and destroyed. The verse gives that ending physical weight: the beast’s body is handed to the burning flame; it is not merely silenced.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that a power’s loudness proves it cannot be brought down: the boastful voice sounds, and the beast’s body still meets destruction.
THE ROOT
חֵיוָה
ḥêwāh
GROWS FROM
חיה
ḥ-y-h
Live; be alive.
“beast” in this verse is ḥêwāh. The Aramaic word belongs to the Semitic life-family shared with Hebrew words for living and life. The vision names this power as a living creature, then shows its body killed and destroyed: its living force is not beyond an ending.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāyâ: To live; remain alive.
חָיָה
This verb shares the life-root behind the beast’s name, making its death the ending of something living.
ḥayyāh: Living creature; animal.
חַיָּה
This branch shows that the word translated “beast” belongs to the language of living creatures, not merely an abstract power.
ḥayyîm: Life.
חַיִּים
The same root that names life frames the verse’s stark image of life extinguished.
קַרְנָא
qarnā
GROWS FROM
קרן
q-r-n
Horn; with a related sense of projecting outward.
The horn is a projecting point, and its speech projects a claim of greatness into the scene. Hebrew echoes the same consonants in a verb for sending out rays, joining the image of the horn with outward projection.
ALSO GROWS
qeren: Horn; also a symbol of strength.
קֶרֶן
This cognate noun reveals the horn as a concentrated, projecting image of power.
qāran: Send out rays; shine.
קָרַן
The shared consonants connect a horn with something radiating outward, illuminating how the horn’s voice projects its claim.
THE PATTERN
A power that claims greatness does not escape judgment; its dominion and embodied force can be brought to an end.
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.THE THREAD
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.The same horn is introduced here with a mouth speaking great things. Daniel 7:11 keeps the vision fixed on that voice until the beast’s body is destroyed, joining the horn’s projected claim to the body’s end.
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