Daniel 8:21

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.

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 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.

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, when, I Daniel, had seen the vision, - and had sought discernment, that lo! there was standing before me, as the appearance of a man. ¹⁶ Then heard I a human voice, between the banks of the Ulai, - which cried out, and said, Gabriel! cause this man to understand the revelation. ¹⁷ So he came near where I stood, and, when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face, - but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man, that, to the time of the end, belongeth the vision. ¹⁸ And, when he spake with me, I fell stunned upon my face, to the earth, - but he touched me, and caused me to stand up where I was. ¹⁹ Then said he, Behold me! causing thee to know, that which shall come to pass in the afterpart of the indignation, - for, at an appointed time, shall be an end. ²⁰ The ram which thou sawest, having the two horns, representeth the kings of Media and Persia; ²¹ and, the he-goat, is the king of Greece, - and, the great horn which was between his eyes, the same, is the first king. ²² Now, as for its being broken in pieces, whereupon there stood up four in its stead, four kingdoms, out of his nation, shall stand up, but not with his strength; ²³ but, in the aftertime of their kingdom, when transgressions, have filled up their measure, - there will stand up a king of mighty presence, and skilful in dissimulation; ²⁴ and his strength, will be mighty, but not through his own strength, and, wonderfully, will he destroy, and succeed and act with effect, - and will destroy mighty ones, and the people of holy ones;

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, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;

Genesis 4:12
Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 5:29
and he called his name Noah saying, - This, one shall give us rest from our work, And from the grievous toil of our hands, By reason of the ground which Yahweh hath cursed,

Genesis 6:5
Then Yahweh saw that great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;

Genesis 6:17
And, I, behold me! bringing in the flood - even waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens, - everything that is in the earth, shall cease to breathe:

Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and all the wild - beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, - and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

Genesis 8:2
and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, - and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

Genesis 8:3
and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, - and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made;

Genesis 8:7
and sent forth a raven, - and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters 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.