What Does Daniel 7:15 Mean in the King James?
I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
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 word translated “spirit” is ruach, the same word for breath and wind, so the vision troubles Daniel’s living breath within his body.
THE MEANING
A vision can unsettle you before its meaning is clear; what you perceive reaches into the breath within your body. The verse holds the inner response and the body together as one experience.
THE ROOT
רוּחִי
rûḥî
GROWS FROM
רוּחַ
r-w-ḥ
Moving air: wind, breath, or spirit.
The Aramaic word behind “spirit” carries the same breath-and-wind meaning as ruach in Hebrew. The verse lets you hear Daniel’s inner disturbance as something moving through his embodied breath.
ALSO GROWS
rûaḥ: Wind, moving air.
רוּחַ
The same word can name air moving around a person and the breath within one.
rûaḥ: Breath.
רוּחַ
This sense brings “my spirit” close to the living breath Daniel feels within his body.
יְבַהֲלֻנַּנִי
yəbahălunnannî
GROWS FROM
בהל
b-h-l
To alarm, dismay, or hurry.
The Aramaic root behind “troubled” also appears in a word for acting in haste. It gives the visions’ effect a sudden jolt, an alarm that can hurry the response before understanding arrives.
ALSO GROWS
behālāh: Alarm, panic, or dismay.
בְּהָלָה
This branch names the startled disturbance carried by Daniel’s response.
bĕhitbĕhālāh: In haste; hurriedly.
בְּהִתְבְּהָלָה
Daniel 2:25 uses this related Aramaic form, showing how alarm and sudden urgency share the root.
THE PATTERN
A vision can unsettle the inner person before its meaning is clear.
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate,THE THREAD
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.Genesis 41:8 uses the same ruach word for the spirit troubled by a dream. The shared root joins the dream’s effect on the inner breath to the search for its meaning.
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