King James Version
Daniel 2:3 in the King James Version says “And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.” — study this verse from Daniel chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.”
Daniel 2:3 · KJV
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. cut: Cald. made pieces
KJV Study — Public Domain
“unto them I have dreamed”
H2492properly, to bind firmly, i.e., (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
“was troubled”
H6470to tap, i.e., beat regularly; hence (generally) to impel or agitate
“and my spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“to know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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