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Daniel 7:17

Hebrew
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

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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_big

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The definite article
θηρία τὰplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_big

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The definite article
μεγάλα εἰσὶplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigεἰμί

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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_big

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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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