What Does Daniel 7:16 Mean in the King James?
I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
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
Meaning opens through nearness: what you do not understand becomes knowable when you draw close enough to ask.
THE MEANING
You can stand before what you do not yet understand and ask what it means. Understanding comes through the answer you receive; the mystery remains present, but it is no longer sealed from you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that needing an explanation means you are too far from the truth to ask.
THE ROOT
קְרֵבֶת
qerebet
GROWS FROM
קרב
To approach, draw near.
“came near” in this verse is qerebet. The verse begins with approach, before the request and its answer. The same root appears in qereb, the inner part or midst, and korban, drawing near; nearness becomes a way into the midst of what is being asked.
ALSO GROWS
qereb: The inner part, midst, or interior.
Its shared root links drawing near with entering into the midst of what is present.
qorban: Drawing near; an approach.
It carries the verse’s movement of coming close before understanding opens.
יְהוֹדְעִנַּנִי
yehodeʿinnani
GROWS FROM
ידע
To know, perceive, recognize.
“made me know” in this verse is yehodeʿinnani. The Aramaic form is causative: the attendant causes Daniel to know the interpretation. This root can hold knowing through encounter, so understanding arrives here through a relation rather than being manufactured from the vision alone.
ALSO GROWS
yādaʿ: To know, perceive, or recognize.
This is the root’s basic action, echoed in the verse’s made me know.
daʿat: Knowledge or understanding.
It shows knowledge as the state that grows from the act of knowing.
THE PATTERN
What is opaque becomes understandable through approach, asking, and an answer that opens its meaning.
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,THE THREAD
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.The Aramaic verb for make known in both verses grows from ידע (y-d-ʿ, to know), and both pair knowing with פְּשַׁר (peshar, interpretation). Together they show that an interpretation can be received and made known; it does not have to be forced out of the mystery by solitary effort.
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