Pedagogical transliterationkol-qovel denah ... ve-data nefqat ... ve-Daniyyel al u-ve'ah
Plain meaningDaniel 2:12–16: the decree goes out, Daniel responds with counsel, asks why it is severe, and requests time.
Pointing follows Miqra according to the Masorah (MAM). Cantillation is omitted on the lesson card for visual focus; the underlying evidence retains the complete source reading. Transliterations are pedagogical aids, not replacements for the source.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
Daniel court/decree reader
This reader is a bounded court narrative. Verse 12 gives the king’s anger and command; verse 13 sends out the decree; verses 14–15 show Daniel answering with counsel and asking for clarification; verse 16 records his request for time. Repeated administrative nouns and purpose infinitives make the sequence visible.
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kol-qovel denah ... ve-data nefqat ... ve-Daniyyel al u-ve'ah
READING
Pedagogical reading guide
Daniel 2:12–16: the decree goes out, Daniel responds with counsel, asks why it is severe, and requests time.
MEANING
Biblical Aramaic
cause and command → decree and danger → prudent response → formal question → request for time
EXAMPLES
Examples supplied by the approved curriculum.
Close translation — 2:12: ‘Because of this the king became angry and very furious, and commanded the destruction of all Babylon’s wise men.’ 2:13: ‘The decree went out, and the wise men were being killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be killed.’ 2:14: ‘Then Daniel replied with counsel and discretion to Arioch, the chief of the king’s executioners, who had gone out to kill Babylon’s wise men.’ 2:15: ‘He answered and said to Arioch, the king’s officer: Why is the decree so severe from before the king? Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel.’ 2:16: ‘Daniel entered and requested from the king that time be given to him, so that he might make the interpretation known to the king.’
Follow a complete court/decree narrative by tracking the decree, its agents, Daniel’s questions, and his request.
Morphology and syntax
Each verse is preserved in MAM and checked against OSHB token morphology; the participle, perfects, and infinitive are explicitly tagged there.
Dialect boundary
Biblical Aramaic of Daniel and Ezra. Later Targumic, Jewish Babylonian, and Zoharic forms are not imported into this lesson.
Practice
Identify the subject of נֶפְקַת, the aspectual force of מִתְקַטְּלִין, Daniel’s question word, and the purpose expressed by לְהַחֲוָיָה.
Answer key
The subject of נֶפְקַת is דָתָא, ‘the decree.’ מִתְקַטְּלִין is participial, ‘were being killed.’ Daniel asks עַל־מָה, ‘why?’ לְהַחֲוָיָה gives the purpose: ‘in order to make known.’
Source notes
No source wording is reconstructed. Paragraph markers are omitted from the card but preserved by the underlying edition.
REMEMBER
Track each finite verb’s subject before translating the paragraph.