Daniel 7:3 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 7:3

Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

KJV

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Daniel (420)

Verses 2, 3. "And during the night I saw in my vision, and behold, the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea, and four great beasts were coming up out of the sea, differing from one another." The four winds of heaven I suppose to have been angelic powers to whom the principalities have been committed, in accordance with what we read in Deuteronomy: "When the Most High divided the nations and when He separated the children of Adam, He established the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the angels.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Hippolytus of Rome

Commentary on Daniel 4.2.1-3 (235)

And so when the different beast was shown to the blessed prophet Daniel and it was shown that it differed from the others, it is necessary for us to consider that he does not discuss any of the beasts as mere animals, but in a model and image he portrays the kingdoms which have arisen in this world, just as he portrays the beasts destroying humanity. For the Great Sea indicates the whole world, he says; "The four winds of heaven," [Daniel 7:2] which signal the fourfold creation.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאַרְבַּ֤ע	ve.'ar.Ba'	and four	H703 →
חֵיוָן֙	chei.Van	beasts	H2423 →
רַבְרְבָ֔ן	rav.re.Van	great	H7260 →
סָלְקָ֖ן	sal.Kan	[were] coming up	H5559 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4481 →
יַמָּ֑א	ya.Ma'	sea the	H3221 →
שָׁנְיָ֖ן	sha.ne.Yan	[they were] different	H8133 →
דָּ֥א	da'	this [one]	H1668 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4481 →
דָּֽא׃	Da'	this [one]	H1668 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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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
Revelation 13:1
Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
leads to
- Revelation 12:3
  Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
- Revelation 17:3
  And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten…
- Revelation 11:7
  When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
- Daniel 7:23–25
  This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down,…
- Daniel 7:2–3
  Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
Through
Psalms 76:4
You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.
leads to
- Ezekiel 19:1–4
  “As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
- Daniel 7:17–28
  ‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
Through
Daniel 7:17
‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
leads to
- Revelation 13:11
  Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.