Daniel 5:28 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 5:28

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

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ASV

PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

KJV

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

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Commentary

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Jerome

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

Verses 25-28. "This is the inscription which has been set up: MANE, THECEL, PHARES. And this is the interpretation of the sentence: 'MANE' means that God has numbered thy kingdom and brought it to an end. 'THECEL' means it has been weighed in the scales and has been found deficient (Vulg.: thou hast been weighed and hast been found...). 'PHARES' means that thy kingdom has been removed and given to the Medes and Persians."

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Peres - In Dan 5:25 this is “Upharsin.” These are but different forms of the same word - the word in Dan 5:25 being in the plural, and here in the singular. The verb (פרס peras) means, to “divide;” and in this form, as in the previous cases, it is, according to Gesenius, participle meaning “divided.” As it stands here, it would be applicable to anything that was “divided” or “sundered” - whether a kingdom, a palace, a house, territory, etc. “What” was divided could be known only by Divine revelation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Peres--the explanation of "dividers" (Da 5:25), the active participle plural there being used for the passive participle singular, "dividers" for "divided." The word "Peres" alludes to the similar word "Persia." divided--namely, among the Medes and Persians [MAURER]; or, "severed" from thee [GROTIUS].

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
פְּרֵ֑ס	pe.Res	peres	H6537 →
פְּרִיסַת֙	pe.ri.Sat	it has been broken in two	H6537 →
מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ	mal.khu.Takh	kingdom your	H4437 →
וִיהִיבַ֖ת	vi.hi.Vat	and it has been given	H3052 →
לְמָדַ֥י	le.ma.Dai	to Medes	H4076 →
וּפָרָֽס׃	u.fa.Ras	and Persians	H6540 →

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Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
leads to
- Daniel 5:28–31
  PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- Jeremiah 51:11
  Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of…
- Isaiah 41:25
  I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who…
- Jeremiah 51:27–28
  “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses…
- Jeremiah 50:9
  For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their…
Through
Daniel 5:31
and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
leads to
- Daniel 9:1
  In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—
- Daniel 6:1
  Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
Through
Isaiah 21:2
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
leads to
- Isaiah 33:1
  Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

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