Daniel 7:17

Hebrew	אִלֵּין֙ חֵיוָתָ֣א רַבְרְבָתָ֔א דִּ֥י אִנִּ֖ין אַרְבַּ֑ע אַרְבְּעָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְקוּמ֥וּן מִן אַרְעָֽא
ESV	'These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.
NIV	'The four great beasts are four kingdoms that will rise from the earth.
NLT	“These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth.
LXX	ταῦταplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigοὗτος / αὕτη /τοῦτο greek Meaning: * These or this * This one, this person, this thing * They or he or she or it Demonstrative pronoun. οὗτος usually refers to something close to the speaker — “this” as opposed to ἐκεῖνος (John 9:161 John 5:111 Corinthians 15:501 John 4:9John 5:1Matthew 3:17John 7:26Luke 22:19 τὰplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὁ greek The definite article θηρία τὰplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὁ greek The definite article μεγάλα εἰσὶplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigεἰμί greek εἰμί is the first person singular verb for “to be” (εἶναι [the infinitive form] = “to be”). It an irregular verb, and, like English, changes significantly between person and tense. For example εἰμί is the word for am and ἦν is the word for was, e.g. τέσσαρες βασιλεῖαι αἳ ἀπολοῦνται ἀπὸ τῆςplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὁ greek The definite article γῆςplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigγῆ Meaning: * Soil or ground (e.g. Matthew 13:5) * Land (e.g. Luke 4:5) * Country * Earth (e.g. Matthew 5:5) Feminine noun. Connected to the English words “ground”, “geometry” and “geology”. It occurs throughout the LXX and the New Testament (approximately 250 times in the New Testament) and its meaning varies subtly on context, for example, in the LXX:Genesis 1:1Genesis 2:7Genesis 12:1
KJV	These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

^{Daniel 7:16 ← Daniel 7:17 → Daniel 7:18}

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