Daniel 8:21

Christian Standard Bible ®

The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king.

Parallel Translations

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he 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

¹⁵While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man. ¹⁶I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.” ¹⁷So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.” ¹⁸While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up, ¹⁹and said, “I am here to tell you what will happen at the conclusion of the time of wrath, because it refers to the appointed time of the end. ²⁰The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia. ²¹The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king. ²²The four horns that took the place of the broken horn represent four kingdoms. They will rise from that nation, but without its power. ²³Near the end of their kingdoms,when the rebels have reachedthe full measure of their sin,a ruthless king, skilled in intrigue,will come to the throne. ²⁴His power will be great,but it will not be his own.He will cause outrageous destructionand succeed in whatever he does.He will destroy the powerfulalong with 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 he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

Genesis 4:12
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

Genesis 6:5
When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

Genesis 6:17
“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

Genesis 8:2
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

Genesis 8:3
The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly.

Genesis 8:6
After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

Genesis 8:7
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from 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.