Daniel 2:2-3

2:2 The king issued an order 1  to summon the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and wise men 2  in order to explain his dreams to him. 3  So they came and awaited the king’s instructions. 4 

2:3 The king told them, “I have had a dream, 5  and I 6  am anxious to understand the dream.”

1 tn Heb “said.” So also in v. 12.

2 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The term Chaldeans (Hebrew כַּשְׂדִּים, kasdim) is used in the book of Daniel both in an ethnic sense and, as here, to refer to a caste of Babylonian wise men and astrologers.

3 tn Heb “to explain to the king his dreams.”

4 tn Heb “stood before the king.”

5 tn Heb “I have dreamed a dream” (so KJV, ASV).

6 tn Heb “my spirit.”