Daniel 7:25

7:25 He will speak words against the Most High.

He will harass ¹  the holy ones of the Most High continually.

His intention ²  will be to change times established by law. ³ 

They will be delivered into his hand

For a time, times, ⁴  and half a time.

Daniel 6:4

6:4 Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find ⁵  some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters. ⁶  But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence, ⁷  because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption. ⁸ 

[7:25]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Aram “he will think.”

[7:25]  ³ tn Aram “times and law.” The present translation is based on the understanding that the expression is a hendiadys.

[7:25]  ⁴ 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.”

[6:4]  ⁵ tn Aram “looking to find.”

[6:4]  ⁶ tn Aram “from the side of the kingdom.”

[6:4]  ⁷ tn Aram “pretext and corruption.”

[6:4]  ⁸ tn Aram “no negligence or corruption was found in him.” The Greek version of Theodotion lacks the phrase “and no negligence or corruption was found in him.”