King James Version
Daniel 10:5 in the King James Version says “Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gol...” — study this verse from Daniel chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: a: Heb. one man”
Daniel 10:5 · KJV
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. pleasant: Heb. bread of desires
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: a: Heb. one man
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
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“Then I lifted up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“and looked”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“clothed”
H3847properly, wrap around, i.e., (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
“whose loins”
H4975properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
“with fine gold”
H3800properly, something carved out, i.e., ore; hence, gold (pure as originally mined)
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