What Does Daniel 7:6 Mean in the King James?
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
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 beast’s dominion is given to it, so even this terrifying power is received rather than self-originating.
THE MEANING
The vision sets a leopard with four bird wings and four heads before you: a predatory, swift, many-headed image. Its dominion is real, yet the verse says it is given to the beast; its force does not make its rule ultimate.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a power must be ultimate because it looks swift, many-headed, and unstoppable.
THE ROOT
שָׁלְטָן
sholtan
GROWS FROM
שׁ־ל־ט
sh-l-ṭ
To rule, hold sway, or exercise power.
The Aramaic word belongs to a family of ruling and authority, while the sentence says this dominion is given to the beast. The vision holds force and dependence together: the beast rules, but its rule is received.
ALSO GROWS
shalaṭ: To rule or exercise power.
שְׁלַט
The verbal branch makes dominion an act of ruling, not merely a possession.
shalliṭ: A ruler, or one who has authority.
שַׁלִּיט
This branch names the one who holds power, linking the beast’s dominion to the authority it exercises.
יְהִיב
yehiv
GROWS FROM
יהב
y-h-b
To give or grant.
“given” in this verse is yehiv. The word for giving makes the source of the beast’s authority part of the vision: its dominion comes to it. Power is present, but the verse shows it as granted.
ALSO GROWS
yahēv: Gives.
יָהֵב
This active form names the act of granting, bringing the giver behind the beast’s power into view.
yehiv: Given or granted.
יְהִיב
This form places the beast on the receiving end of dominion.
THE PATTERN
Authority can be immense and still be received rather than self-originating.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.THE THREAD
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.The same Aramaic word for dominion, שָׁלְטָן (sholtan), and the same verb for giving appear again. Read together, the verses place the beast’s real authority within a larger transfer of rule that ends in dominion that does not pass away.
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