Daniel 8:4
Context| NETBible | I saw that the ram was butting westward, northward, and southward. No animal 1 was able to stand before it, and there was none who could deliver from its power. 2 It did as it pleased and acted arrogantly. 3 |
| XREF | Job 10:7; Ps 7:2; Ps 50:22; Isa 10:13,14; Isa 45:1-5; Jer 50:1-51:64; Da 5:19; Da 5:30; Da 7:5; Da 8:7; Da 11:2; Da 11:3,16,36; Mic 5:8 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “beast” (NAB). 2 tn Heb “hand.” So also in v. 7. 3 tn In the Hiphil the Hebrew verb גָּדַל (gadal, “to make great; to magnify”) can have either a positive or a negative sense. For the former, used especially of God, see Ps 126:2, 3; Joel 2:21. In this chapter (8:4, 8, 11, 25) the word has a pejorative sense, describing the self-glorification of this king. The sense seems to be that of vainly assuming one’s own superiority through deliberate hubris. |
