Daniel 5:28

Revised Standard Version

PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
‘Peres’ means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Hebrew Names Version
PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Madai and Paras.

King James Version
Peres ; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

English Standard Version
Peres , your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

New American Standard Bible
"'PERES'—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

New Century Version
Parsin: Your kingdom is being divided and will be given to the Medes and the Persians."

Amplified Bible
'PERES'—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Peres, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
" 'PERES'—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

Berean Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

Complete Jewish Bible
‘P'res' — your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Darby Translation
PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Easy-to-Read Version
Uparsin: Your kingdom is being taken from you. It will be divided among the Medes and Persians."

George Lamsa Translation
PERES, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Good News Translation
divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians."

Lexham English Bible
"‘Peres'—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.'"

Literal Translation
HALF MINAS: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Phares, Thy kyngdome is delt in partes, and geuen to the Medes and Perses.

American Standard Version
peres ; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Bible in Basic English
Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

King James Version (1611)
PERES, thy kingdome is diuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
PHERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and geuen to the Medes, and Perses.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Phares; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

English Revised Version
PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

World English Bible
PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Phares, thi rewme is departid, and is youun to Medeis and Perseis.

Update Bible Version
PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Webster's Bible Translation
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

New English Translation
As for peres—your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

New King James Version
Peres: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." [fn]

New Living Translation
Parsin means ‘divided'—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

New Life Bible
‘PERES' means that your nation has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

New Revised Standard
peres , your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
P'res, - snatched away is thy kingdom, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Douay-Rheims Bible
PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.

Young's Literal Translation
Divided -- Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'

THE MESSAGE
"Peres: Your kingdom has been divided up and handed over to the Medes and Persians."

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall; and the queen said, "O king, live for ever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change. ¹¹ There is in your kingdom a man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him, and King Nebuchadnez'zar, your father, made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chalde'ans, and astrologers, ¹² because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshaz'zar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation." ¹³ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, "You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah. ¹⁴ I have heard of you that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. ¹⁵ Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the matter. ¹⁶ But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. ¹⁷ Then Daniel answered before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation. ¹⁸ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnez'zar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty; ¹⁹ and because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

PERES: Peres,"he was divided," pronounced paras, denoted Persians, who seem evidently referred to.

Thy: Daniel 5:31, Daniel 6:28, Daniel 8:3, Daniel 8:4, Daniel 8:20, Daniel 9:1, Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:6 - the Medes Esther 1:3 - of Persia Job 34:24 - set Jeremiah 25:13 - hath Jeremiah 25:14 - many Jeremiah 25:25 - Medes Jeremiah 51:28 - the kings Ezekiel 27:10 - Persia Daniel 2:9 - the time Daniel 2:39 - another kingdom Daniel 4:31 - The kingdom Daniel 7:5 - itself on one side Luke 12:20 - then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

PERES,.... The singular of "Pharsin", Daniel 5:25. The sense of this word is,

thy kingdom is divided: which, though it consisted of various provinces, united under Belshazzar, now should be broken and separated from him:

and given to the Medes and Persians; to Darius the Mede, and to Cyrus the Persian, who was a partner for a while with his uncle Darius in the government of the empire: there is an elegant play on words in the words "Peres" and "Persians"; and a grievous thing it is to sinners, not only to have body and soul divided at death, but to be divided and separated from God to all eternity; and to hear that sentence, "depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Peres - In Daniel 5:25 this is “Upharsin.” These are but different forms of the same word - the word in Daniel 5:25 being in the plural, and here in the singular. The verb (פרס p^eras) means, to “divide;” and in this form, as in the previous cases, it is, according to Gesenius, participle meaning “divided.” As it stands here, it would be applicable to anything that was “divided” or “sundered” - whether a kingdom, a palace, a house, territory, etc. “What” was divided could be known only by Divine revelation. If the “word” had been understood by Belshazzar, undoubtedly it would have suggested the idea that there was to be some sort of division or sundering, but what that was to be would not be indicated by the mere use of the word. Perhaps to an affrighted imagination there might have been conveyed the idea that there would be a revolt in some of the provinces of the empire, and that a part would be rent away, but it would not have occurred that it would be so rent that the whole would pass under the dominion of a foreign power. Josephus (“Ant.” b. x. ch. xi. Section 3) says, that the word “Phares in the Greek tongue means a “fragment,” κλασμα klasma - God will, therefore, break thy kingdom in pieces, and divide it among the Medes and Persians.”

Thy kingdom is divided - That is, the proper interpretation of this communication is, that the kingdom is about to be rent asunder, or broken into fragments. It is to be separated or torn from the dynasty that has ruled over it, and to be given to another.

And given to the Medes and Persians - On this united kingdom, see the notes at Isaiah 13:17. It was “given” to the Medes and Persians when it was taken by Cyrus, and when the kingdom of Babylon became extinct, and thenceforward became a part of the Medo-Persian empire. See the notes at Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 13:19.