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In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing.

New American Standard Bible

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it.

King James Version

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

Holman Bible

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream with visions in his mind as he was lying in his bed. He wrote down the dream, and here is the summary of his account.

International Standard Version

In the first year of the reign of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel dreamed a dream, receiving visions in his mind while in bed, after which he recorded the dream, relating this summary of events.

A Conservative Version

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

American Standard Version

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

Amplified

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions appeared in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related a summary of it.

Darby Translation

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream; he told the sum of the matters.

Julia Smith Translation

In one year to Belshazzar the king of Babel, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: at that time he wrote the dream, telling the head of the words.

King James 2000

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

Lexham Expanded Bible

In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head [as he lay] on his bed; then he wrote down the dream [and] [the] {summary} of [the] words {as follows}:

Modern King James verseion

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and gave the sum of the matters.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, saw Daniel a dream, and a vision was in his head upon his bed. Which dream he wrote, and the sum of the matter is this:

NET Bible

In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream filled with visions while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion.

New Heart English Bible

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions in his mind on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the summary of it.

The Emphasized Bible

In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel, beheld, a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed, - then, the dream, he wrote, the sum of the matters, he told.

Webster

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

World English Bible

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

Youngs Literal Translation

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel hath seen a dream, and the visions of his head on his bed, then the dream he hath written, the chief of the things he hath said.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In the first
חד 
Chad (Aramaic) 
Usage: 14

שׁנה 
Sh@nah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

בּלשׁאצּר 
Belsha'tstsar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

מלך 
melek (Aramaic) 
Usage: 180

of Babylon
בּבל 
babel (Aramaic) 
Usage: 25

דּניּאל 
Daniye'l (Aramaic) 
Usage: 52

had
חזה חזא 
Chaza' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 31

a dream
חלם 
Chelem (Aramaic) 
Usage: 22

and visions
חזו 
Chezev (Aramaic) 
Usage: 12

of his head
ראשׁ 
Re'sh (Aramaic) 
Usage: 14

על 
`al (Aramaic) 
Usage: 102

משׁכּב 
Mishkab (Aramaic) 
bed
Usage: 6

אדין 
'edayin (Aramaic) 
Usage: 57

he wrote
כּתב 
K@thab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

the dream
חלם 
Chelem (Aramaic) 
Usage: 22

and told
אמר 
'amar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 71

the sum
ראשׁ 
Re'sh (Aramaic) 
Usage: 14

References

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Context Readings

Daniel's Vision Of Four Beasts And The Son Of Man

1 In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing. 2 I had a vision by night, and saw the four winds of heaven violently moving the great sea.


Cross References

Daniel 4:5

I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head.

Daniel 5:1

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

Job 33:14-16

For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

Daniel 1:17

Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

Daniel 2:1

In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.

Daniel 7:15

As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.

Joel 2:28

And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

Genesis 15:1

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

Genesis 46:2

And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Numbers 12:6

And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

Job 4:13

In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

Isaiah 8:1

And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

Isaiah 30:8

Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

Jeremiah 23:28

If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.

Jeremiah 36:4

Then Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah; and Baruch took down from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had said to him, writing them in a book.

Ezekiel 1:1

Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was by the river Chebar among those who had been made prisoners, that the heavens were made open and I saw visions of God.

Daniel 2:28-29

But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:

Daniel 5:22

And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

Daniel 7:7

After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.

Daniel 7:13

I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.

Daniel 8:1

In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.

Amos 3:7

Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

Habakkuk 2:2

And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.

Acts 2:17-18

And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

Romans 15:4

Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

2 Corinthians 12:1

As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Revelation 1:19

Put in writing, then, the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will be after these;

Revelation 10:4

And when the seven thunders had given out their voices, I was about to put their words down: and a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Keep secret the things which the seven thunders said, and do not put them in writing.

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