King James Version
Daniel 4:13 in the King James Version says “I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;” — study this verse from Daniel chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;”
Daniel 4:13 · KJV
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: aloud: Cald. with might
Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I saw”
H1934to exist; used in a great variety of applications (especially in connection with other words)
“upon”
H5922above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and an holy one”
H6922sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) god (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
“heaven”
H8065the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
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