Discovery BoxDaniel 4:7 
Context4:7 When the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners entered, I recounted the dream for them. But they were unable to make known its interpretation to me.
Daniel 5:8
Context5:8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its 1 interpretation to the king.
Daniel 6:18
Context6:18 Then the king departed to his palace. But he spent the night without eating, and no diversions 2 were brought to him. He was unable to sleep. 3
1 tc Read וּפִשְׁרֵהּ (ufishreh) with the Qere rather than וּפִשְׁרָא (ufishra’) of the Kethib.
2 tn The meaning of Aramaic דַּחֲוָה (dakhavah) is a crux interpretum. Suggestions include “music,” “dancing girls,” “concubines,” “table,” “food” – all of which are uncertain. The translation employed here, suggested by earlier scholars, is deliberately vague. A number of recent English versions follow a similar approach with “entertainment” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On this word see further, HALOT 1849-50 s.v.; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 37.
3 tn Aram “his sleep fled from him.”
