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Daniel 8:21

The goat is the king of Greece. The big horn between its eyes 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.
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

15 I, Daniel, saw this vision and tried to understand what it meant. While I was thinking about the vision, someone who looked like a man suddenly stood in front of me. 16 Then I heard a man's voice. This voice came from above the Ulai River. The voice called out, "Gabriel, explain the vision to this man." 17 So Gabriel, the angel who looked like a man, came to me. I was very afraid and fell down to the ground. But Gabriel said to me, "Human, understand that this vision is about the time of the end." 18 While Gabriel was speaking, I fell to the ground and went to sleep. It was a very deep sleep. Then Gabriel touched me and lifted me to my feet. 19 He said, "Now, I will explain the vision to you. I will tell you what will happen in the future. Your vision was about the end times. 20 "You saw a ram with two horns. The horns are the countries of Media and Persia. 21 The goat is the king of Greece. The big horn between its eyes is the first king. 22 That horn broke off and four horns grew in its place. The four horns are four kingdoms. Those four kingdoms will come from the nation of the first king, but they will not be as strong as the first king. 23 "When the end is near for those kingdoms, there will be a very bold and cruel king who will be very tricky. This will happen when many people have turned against God. 24 This king will be very powerful, but his power does not come from himself. This king will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in everything he does. He will destroy powerful people—even God's 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
Then God said to the man, "I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.
Genesis 4:12
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."
Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah. Lamech said, "We work very hard as farmers because God cursed the ground. But Noah will bring us rest."
Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.
Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.
Genesis 8:1
But God did not forget about Noah. God remembered him and all the animals that were with him in the boat. God made a wind blow over the earth, and all the water began to disappear.
Genesis 8:2
Rain stopped falling from the sky, and water stopped flowing from under the earth.
Genesis 8:3
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After 150 days the water was low enough that the boat touched land again. The boat stopped on one of the mountains of Ararat. This was the 17th day of the seventh month.
Genesis 8:6
Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat.
Genesis 8:7
Then he sent out a raven. The raven flew from place to place until the ground was dry and the water was gone.

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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