And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
And the young he-goat, the hairy one, is the king of Javan; and the great horn that is between its eyes is the first king;
And the rough goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that was between his eyes is the first king.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2