Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New American Standard Bible

‘PERĒS’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

King James Version

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

International Standard Version

PERES: Your kingdom has been divided and will be given to the Medes and Persians."

A Conservative Version

PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

American Standard Version

PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Amplified

peres’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Bible in Basic English

Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

Darby Translation

PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Julia Smith Translation

Pharsin; Thy kingdom was divided, and it shall be given to the Medes and to Persia.

King James 2000

PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'Peres'--your kingdom has been divided and given to [the] Medes and Persians.'"

Modern King James verseion

HALF-MINAS, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Phares, thy kingdom is dealt in parts, and given to the Medes and Persians."

NET Bible

As for peres -- your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

New Heart English Bible

PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

The Emphasized Bible

P'res, - snatched away is thy kingdom, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Webster

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

World English Bible

PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Youngs Literal Translation

Divided -- Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּרס 
P@rac (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

מלכוּ 
Malkuw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 57

is divided
פּרס 
P@rac (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

and given
יהב 
Y@hab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 28

to the Medes
מדי 
Maday (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing

27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.
28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” 29 Then Belshazzar gave an order, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.



Cross References

Isaiah 13:17

Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who cannot be bought off with silver
and who have no desire for gold.

Daniel 6:28

So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Isaiah 21:2

A troubling vision is declared to me:
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Daniel 5:31

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of 62.

Isaiah 45:1-2

The Lord says this to Cyrus, His anointed,
whose right hand I have grasped
to subdue nations before him,
to disarm kings,
to open the doors before him
and the gates will not be shut:

Daniel 9:1

In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

Daniel 8:3-4

I looked up, and there was a ram standing beside the canal. He had two horns. The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up last.

Daniel 8:20

The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

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