What Does Daniel 9:22 Mean in the King James?
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
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
“He informed me” and “understanding” share one Hebrew root: the message and the capacity to discern it arrive together.
THE MEANING
Understanding reaches the reader as a gift that can arrive with the message itself. What becomes clear and the capacity to perceive it belong together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you must manufacture understanding on your own before insight can reach you.
THE ROOT
וַיָּבֶן
wayyāḇēn binah
GROWS FROM
בין
b-y-n
To discern or distinguish; to perceive what lies between things.
“informed; understanding” in this verse is wayyāḇēn binah. The verb translated “informed” and the noun “understanding” both grow from this root. The verse joins receiving an insight with gaining the discernment to see it.
ALSO GROWS
hevin: To perceive or distinguish.
הֵבִין
This verb is the root’s action in “he informed me”: Daniel is brought to discern.
tevunah: The faculty of insight or discretion.
תְּבוּנָה
This related word shows that the root can name not only an act of perceiving, but the capacity to perceive.
דָּנִיֵּאל
Daniyyel
GROWS FROM
דין
d-y-n
Judgment; joined to אֵל (El, God), the name means “God is my judge.”
The message addresses Daniel by a name that carries judgment within it. Understanding arrives under a name that places judgment with God.
ALSO GROWS
dan: To judge or decide.
דָּן
This verb carries the judgment element that appears in Daniel’s name.
din: Judgment or a decision.
דִּין
This noun makes the name’s judgment-root explicit.
THE PATTERN
Understanding becomes available as something given, opened, or awakened within a person.
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.THE THREAD
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.The same root appears in both “understood” and “understanding.” The repeated root shows that what is revealed and the capacity to discern the vision belong together.
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