What Does Daniel 8:5 Mean in the King James?
And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
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 between the goat’s eyes joins projection with sight, placing its force exactly where its direction is formed.
THE MEANING
A force enters from the west and crosses the whole earth without touching the ground, moving beyond ordinary contact. Its conspicuous horn stands between its eyes, placing force at the point of sight. The verse holds vast reach and concentrated direction in one image.
THE ROOT
קֶרֶן
qeren
GROWS FROM
קרן
Horn; something that projects outward.
The horn is a point of projection: the same consonants appear in קָרַן (qāran, “shine” or “send out rays”). Set between the eyes, it joins outward force with sight, as though the creature’s projection begins at the place from which it takes in the field.
ALSO GROWS
qarnayim: horns
קַרְנַיִם
The plural keeps the same root consonants and shows the horn as a projecting form.
qāran: to shine; to send out rays
קָרַן
This verb shares the root consonants, opening a link between the horn’s projection and radiance.
עֵינָיו
ʿênāyw
GROWS FROM
עין
Eye; also a spring or source.
עַיִן (ʿayin) can name both an eye and a spring: an opening for sight and a source from which something flows. With the horn between the eyes, the image places its projection at a source of sight, a resonance the English location alone does not show.
ALSO GROWS
ʿênayim: eyes
עֵינַיִם
This plural form shares the root and names the two eyes that frame the horn.
maʿyan: spring; fountain
מַעְיָן
This word shares the consonants עין and names a source that wells up, adding a source-image to the horn’s position between the eyes.
נוֹגֵעַ
nōgēaʿ
GROWS FROM
נגע
To touch, reach, or strike.
“touched not” in this verse is nōgēaʿ. The Hebrew says there is no נוֹגֵעַ (nōgēaʿ, “touching”) the ground. The same root can name contact that lands as a stroke, making the goat’s extraordinary motion an image of force that crosses the whole field without making contact.
ALSO GROWS
negaʿ: stroke; affliction
נֶגַע
This noun shares the root consonants and names contact as a blow or affliction, the opposite pole of the goat’s untouched passage.
negīʿāh: touch; contact
נְגִיעָה
This noun shares the root and makes explicit the contact the verse says does not occur.
THE PATTERN
A course that spans a whole field can be organized by a single line of sight.
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.THE THREAD
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.Daniel’s קֶרֶן (qeren, “horn”) and Exodus’s קָרַן (qāran, “shine” or “send out rays”) share the root consonants קרן. Exodus gives that root to radiance from the face, so the horn between the goat’s eyes carries an image of projection joined to sight.
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