Daniel 8:16

8:16 Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, “Gabriel, ¹  enable this person to understand the vision.”

Daniel 8:21

8:21 The male goat ²  is the king of Greece, ³  and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.

Daniel 11:45

11:45 He will pitch his royal tents between the seas ⁴  toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

Daniel 7:5

7:5 “Then ⁵  a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs ⁶  in its mouth between its teeth. ⁷  It was told, ⁸  ‘Get up and devour much flesh!’

Daniel 8:5

8:5 While I was contemplating all this, ⁹  a male goat ¹⁰  was coming from the west over the surface of all the land ¹¹  without touching the ground. This goat had a conspicuous horn ¹²  between its eyes.

[8:16]  ¹ sn The only angels whose names are given in the OT are Gabriel (Dan 8:16; 9:21; cf. Luke 1:19, 26) and Michael (Dan 10:13, 21; 12:1; cf. Jude 9; Rev 12:7). The name Gabriel means in Hebrew “man of God,” and Michael means “who is like God?”

[8:21]  ² tn Heb “the he-goat, the buck.” The expression is odd, and the second word may be an explanatory gloss.

[8:21]  ³ tn Heb “Javan.”

[11:45]  ³ sn Presumably seas refers to the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea.

[7:5]  ⁴ tn Aram “and behold.”

[7:5]  ⁵ sn The three ribs held securely in the mouth of the bear, perhaps representing Media-Persia, apparently symbolize military conquest, but the exact identity of the “ribs” is not clear. Possibly it is a reference to the Persian conquest of Lydia, Egypt, and Babylonia.

[7:5]  ⁶ tc The LXX lacks the phrase “between its teeth.”

[7:5]  ⁷ tn Aram “and thus they were saying to it.”

[8:5]  ⁵ tn The words “all this” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[8:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and behold, a he-goat of the goats.”

[8:5]  ⁷ tn Or “of the whole earth” (NAB, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

[8:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “a horn of vision” [or “conspicuousness”], i.e., “a conspicuous horn,” one easily seen.