Daniel 8:21

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.

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.

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 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 As I, Daniel, was trying to understand the meaning of this vision, someone who looked like a man stood in front of me. ¹⁶ And I heard a human voice calling out from the Ulai River, "Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of his vision." ¹⁷ As Gabriel approached the place where I was standing, I became so terrified that I fell with my face to the ground. "Son of man," he said, "you must understand that the events you have seen in your vision relate to the time of the end." ¹⁸ While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet. ¹⁹ Then he said, "I am here to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath. What you have seen pertains to the very end of time. ²⁰ The two-horned ram represents the kings of Media and Persia. ²¹ The shaggy male goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king of the Greek Empire. ²² The four prominent horns that replaced the one large horn show that the Greek Empire will break into four kingdoms, but none as great as the first. ²³ "At the end of their rule, when their sin is at its height, a fierce king, a master of intrigue, will rise to power. ²⁴ He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause a shocking amount of destruction and succeed in everything he does. He will destroy powerful leaders and devastate 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 man he said, "Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

Genesis 4:12
No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "May he bring us relief from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed."

Genesis 6:5
The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

Genesis 6:17
"Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.

Genesis 8:2
The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.

Genesis 8:3
So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,

Genesis 8:6
After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat

Genesis 8:7
and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.

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.