Discovery BoxDaniel 2:9 
Context2:9 If you don’t inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you. 1 For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful 2 until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence 3 that you can disclose its interpretation.”
Daniel 7:25
Context7:25 He will speak words against the Most High.
He will harass 4 the holy ones of the Most High continually.
His intention 5 will be to change times established by law. 6
They will be delivered into his hand
For a time, times, 7 and half a time.
1 tn Aram “one is your law,” i.e., only one thing is applicable to you.
2 tn Aram “a lying and corrupt word.”
3 tn Aram “I will know.”
4 tn Aram “wear out” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB, NLT “wear down.” The word is a hapax legomenon in biblical Aramaic, but in biblical Hebrew it especially refers to wearing out such things as garments. Here it is translated “harass…continually.”
5 tn Aram “he will think.”
6 tn Aram “times and law.” The present translation is based on the understanding that the expression is a hendiadys.
7 sn Although the word times is vocalized in the MT as a plural, it probably should be regarded as a dual. The Masoretes may have been influenced here by the fact that in late Aramaic (and Syriac) the dual forms fall out of use. The meaning would thus be three and a half “times.”
