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Green's Literal Translation

Daniel 8:21

And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his 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.
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.
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 And it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, then I sought the meaning. And, behold, the form of a man stood before me. 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, and he called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision. 17 And he came beside my place. And when he came, I feared and fell on my face. But he said to me, O son of man, understand, for the vision is for the time of the end. 18 And while he was speaking with me, I was stunned and on my face toward the ground. But he touched me and made me stand. 19 And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall happen in the last end of the indignation. For it is for the time appointed for the end. 20 The ram which you saw with two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. 21 And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king. 22 And as for that which was shattered, and four stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in its power. 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king, strong of face and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy wondrously, and he shall prosper, and work, and destroy the mighty, 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 He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eatof it in sorrow all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Genesis 8:2
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Genesis 8:3
And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:6
And it happened, at the end of forty days, even Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Genesis 8:7
And he sent out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up 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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