Daniel 1:5
Context1:5 So the king assigned them a daily ration 1 from his royal delicacies 2 and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained 3 for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service. 4
Daniel 7:25
Context7:25 He will speak words against the Most High.
He will harass 5 the holy ones of the Most High continually.
His intention 6 will be to change times established by law. 7
They will be delivered into his hand
For a time, times, 8 and half a time.


[1:5] 1 tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”
[1:5] 2 tn Heb “from the delicacies of the king.”
[1:5] 3 tn Or “educated.” See HALOT 179 s.v. I גדל.
[1:5] 4 tn Heb “stand before the king.”
[7:25] 5 tn Aram “wear out” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB, NLT “wear down.” The word is a hapax legomenon in biblical Aramaic, but in biblical Hebrew it especially refers to wearing out such things as garments. Here it is translated “harass…continually.”
[7:25] 6 tn Aram “he will think.”
[7:25] 7 tn Aram “times and law.” The present translation is based on the understanding that the expression is a hendiadys.
[7:25] 8 sn Although the word times is vocalized in the MT as a plural, it probably should be regarded as a dual. The Masoretes may have been influenced here by the fact that in late Aramaic (and Syriac) the dual forms fall out of use. The meaning would thus be three and a half “times.”