What Does Daniel 8:19 Mean in the King James?
And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
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 end of indignation is a mo’ed, a meeting point already appointed.
THE MEANING
The verse presents indignation as a bounded span: its end belongs to an appointed time. What is not yet visible is not therefore without limit.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that indignation can continue without end is undone here: the verse names both its boundary and its appointed time.
THE ROOT
מוֹעֵד
mo'ed
GROWS FROM
יעד
to appoint, designate, or meet by appointment
Mo’ed carries the sense of an appointed time or meeting. The end is not merely where a duration stops; it is an arrival set for a particular time.
ALSO GROWS
ya'ad: appoint, designate, or meet
יָעַד
This verb names the act behind the appointed time: the endpoint is designated.
mo'ed: appointed time, season, or meeting
מוֹעֵד
This is the word in the verse; its sense of meeting makes the end an arrival at a set time.
edah: assembly or congregation
עֵדָה
The related word for an assembly carries the idea of people gathered at an appointed meeting.
מוֹדִיעֲךָ
modi'akha
GROWS FROM
ידע
to know, perceive, or recognize
“Make thee know” is a causative form of yada: the hidden matter is brought into perception. Beside mo’ed, the verse joins what is made known with the appointed moment of its ending.
ALSO GROWS
yada: know, perceive, or recognize
יָדַע
This is the root verb behind “make thee know,” carrying knowing as perception rather than bare information.
da'at: knowledge or understanding
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root connects the disclosure to a state of knowing what had been hidden.
THE PATTERN
An appointed time gives a hidden arrival or ending a boundary, even when it seems delayed.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,THE THREAD
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.Habakkuk uses mo’ed for the appointed time and qets for the end, echoing Daniel’s pairing. Its “though it tarry” names the felt gap between appointment and arrival without erasing either.
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