Daniel 4:5 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 4:5

I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.

BSB

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ASV

I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

KJV

I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

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Commentary

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Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER FOUR (420)

Verse 5. "'I beheld a dream which terrified me, and my thoughts while upon my bed...'" Let our opponents answer what kind of a dream the hostile power would have seen, unless perhaps everything he appears to possess in this world is a mere shadowy dream. "'And the visions of my head greatly disturbed me.'" Note how Nebuchadnezzar realized that his visions were not those of his eyes and heart, but rather of his head, because it was for the glory of God's future servants that these secrets were being revealed to him.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חֵ֥לֶם	Che.lem	a dream	H2493 →
חֲזֵ֖ית	cha.Zeit	I saw	H2370 →
וִֽידַחֲלִנַּ֑נִי	vi.da.cha.li.Na.ni	and it made afraid me	H1763 →
וְהַרְהֹרִין֙	ve.har.ho.Rin	and imaginings	H2031 →
עַֽל־	'al-	on	H5922 →
מִשְׁכְּבִ֔י	mish.ke.Vi	bed my	H4903 →
וְחֶזְוֵ֥י	ve.chez.Vei	and [the] visions of	H2376 →
רֵאשִׁ֖י	re.Shi	head my	H7217 →
יְבַהֲלֻנַּֽנִי׃	ye.va.ha.lu.Na.ni	they alarmed me	H927 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 41:1
After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
leads to
- Genesis 29:14
  Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
- Genesis 20:3
  One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- Job 33:15–16
  In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
- Ezekiel 29:9
  The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
- Exodus 4:9
  But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from…
Through
Daniel 5:10
Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow…
leads to
- Daniel 3:9
  saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!
- Daniel 2:4
  Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
- Daniel 6:6
  So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!