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Brenton's Septuagint

Daniel 8:21

The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Empires/world Powers;   Last Days;   War/weapons;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Goat, the;   Macedonian Empire, the;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Darius;   Greece;   Shushan;   Vision;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Greece;   Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Allegory;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Greece;   Javan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Goat;   Gog;   Grecians;   Javan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Grecia;   Greece;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alexander the Great;   Goat;   Horn;   Javan,;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alexander the Great ;   Goat;   Grecia, Greece;   Horns;   Javan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Goat;   Grecians;   Greece;   Greeks;   Macedonia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Greece, Greeks, Gre'cians;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Goat;   Jews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Between the Testaments;   Goat;   Horn;   Javan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gabriel;   Javan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king.
Hebrew Names Version
The rough male goat is the king of Yavan: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
King James Version
And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
English Standard Version
And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
New American Standard Bible
"The shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
New Century Version
The male goat is the king of Greece, and the big horn between its eyes is the first king.
Amplified Bible
"The shaggy (rough-coated) male goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the goate is the King of Grecia, and the great horne that is betweene his eyes, is the first King.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Berean Standard Bible
The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
Contemporary English Version
the goat is the kingdom of Greece, and the powerful horn between his eyes is the first of its kings.
Complete Jewish Bible
The shaggy male goat is the king of Greece, and the prominent horn between its eyes is the first king.
Darby Translation
And the rough goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that was between his eyes is the first king.
Easy-to-Read Version
The goat is the king of Greece. The big horn between its eyes is the first king.
George Lamsa Translation
And the he-goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Good News Translation
The goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the prominent horn between his eyes is the first king.
Lexham English Bible
"And the hairy he-goat is the kingdom of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes—he is the first king.
Literal Translation
And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but the goate is the kynge of Grekelonde: the greate horne that stode betwixte his eyes, that is the pryncipall kynge.
American Standard Version
And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Bible in Basic English
And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
King James Version (1611)
And the rough goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horne that is betweene his eyes, is the first king.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the goate, is the king of Grecia: and the great horne that is betwixt his eyes, that is the first king.
English Revised Version
And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
World English Bible
The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the buc of geet is the kyng of Grekis; and the greet horn that was bitwixe hise iyen, he is the firste kyng.
Update Bible Version
The he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the rough goat [is] the king of Grecia: and the great horn that [is] between his eyes [is] the first king.
New English Translation
The male goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.
New King James Version
And the male goat is the kingdom Daniel 7:17, 23)">[fn] of Greece. The large horn that is between its eyes is the first king.
New Living Translation
The shaggy male goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king of the Greek Empire.
New Life Bible
The male goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
New Revised Standard
The male goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn between its eyes is the first king.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, the he-goat, is the king of Greece, - and, the great horn which was between his eyes, the same, is the first king.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.
Revised Standard Version
And the he-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
Young's Literal Translation
And the young he-goat, the hairy one, [is] the king of Javan; and the great horn that [is] between its eyes is the first king;

Contextual Overview

15 And it came to pass, as I, even I Daniel, saw the vision, and sought to understand it, that, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16 And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of the Ubal; and he called, and said, Gabriel, cause that man to understand the vision. 17 And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he came, I was struck with awe, and fell upon my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man: for yet the vision is for an appointed time. 18 And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth: and he touched me, and set me on my feet. 19 And he said, Behold, I make thee know the things that shall come to pass at the end of the wrath: for the vision is yet for an appointed time. 20 The ram which thou sawest that had the horns is the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king. 22 And as for the one that was broken, in whose place there stood up four horns, four kings shall arise out of his nation, but not in their own strength. 23 And at the latter time of their kingdom, when their sins are coming to the full, there shall arise a king bold in countenance, and understanding riddles. 24 And his power shall be great, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practise, and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the rough: Daniel 8:5-7, Daniel 10:20

the great: Daniel 8:8, Daniel 11:3

Reciprocal: Numbers 24:24 - Chittim Isaiah 23:15 - one king Jeremiah 48:25 - horn Ezekiel 27:13 - Javan Daniel 7:6 - lo Zechariah 9:13 - against

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noe, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed.
Genesis 6:5
Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:17
Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.
Genesis 8:2
And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
Genesis 8:3
And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Genesis 8:7
And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia,.... Including all the kings of it, from Alexander to the end of the Grecian monarchy; or rather the kingdom of Greece, which began in him, and continued until it was destroyed by the Romans: this was signified by the rough or hairy goat, especially when Alexander was at the head of it, for his strength and prowess, his swiftness in his marches over rocks and mountains, his majesty and grandeur, and also his lust and uncleanness;

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and the great host that is between his eyes is the first king; this is Alexander, who, though he was not the first king of Macedon, his father Philip, and others, were kings before him; yet was the first king of the Grecian monarchy, which took place on the Persian monarchy being destroyed by him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the rough goat - See the notes at Daniel 8:5. In Daniel 8:5 he is called a he-goat. Here the word rough or hairy - שׂעיר s'â‛ı̂yr - is applied to it. This appellation is often given to a goat Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 16:9; Genesis 37:31. It would seem that either term - a he-goat, or a hairy-goat - would serve to designate the animal, and it is probable that the terms were used indiscriminately.

Is the king of Grecia - Represents the king of Greece. The word here rendered Grecia (יון yâvân) denotes usually and properly Ionia, the western part of Asia Minor; but this name was extended so as to embrace the whole of Greece. See Aristoph. Acharn. 504, ibique Schol.; AEschyl. Pers. 176, 561; Gesenius, Lexicon Latin Vulgate and Theodotion, here render it “the king of the Grecians,” and there can be no doubt that the royal power among the Greeks is here referred to. See the notes at Daniel 8:5.

And the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king - Alexander the Great. The first that consolidated the whole power, and that was known in the East as the king of Greece. So he is expressly called in 1 Macc. 1:1: “The first over Greece.” Philip, his father, was opposed in his attempts to conquer Greece, and was defeated. Alexander invaded Greece, burned Thebes, compelled the Athenians to submit, and was declared generalissimo of the Grecian forces against the Persians.


 
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