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Daniel 7 vision reader

BA-R03Biblical AramaicAramaic of Daniel and Ezra

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST

עָנֵה דָנִיֵּאל וְאָמַר חָזֵה הֲוֵית בְּחֶזְוִי עִם־לֵֽילְיָא וַאֲרוּ אַרְבַּע רוּחֵי שְׁמַיָּא מְגִיחָן לְיַמָּא רַבָּֽא׃ וְאַרְבַּע חֵיוָן רַבְרְבָן סָלְקָן מִן־יַמָּא שָׁנְיָן דָּא מִן־דָּֽא׃ קַדְמָיְתָא כְאַרְיֵה וְגַפִּין דִּֽי־נְשַׁר לַהּ חָזֵה הֲוֵית עַד דִּי־מְּרִיטוּ גַפַּהּ וּנְטִילַת מִן־אַרְעָא וְעַל־רַגְלַיִן כֶּאֱנָשׁ הֳקִימַת וּלְבַב אֱנָשׁ יְהִיב לַֽהּ׃

Pedagogical transliterationḥazeh haveit be-ḥezvi im-leilya ... ve-arba ḥeivan raveravan salqan min-yamma

Plain meaningDaniel 7:2–4: four winds stir the sea, four beasts arise, and the first is described.
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.

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Daniel 7 vision reader

Vision prose uses familiar grammar with less familiar nouns. In חָזֵה הֲוֵית, the participle plus הוה produces ‘I was seeing.’ Verse 3 introduces four great beasts with feminine plural סָלְקָן and שָׁנְיָן. Verse 4 follows the first beast through a sequence of passive and causative forms. Rare symbols are glossed; the recurring grammar receives the learner’s attention.

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Keep the form, reading, and meaning together.

עָנֵה דָנִיֵּאל וְאָמַר חָזֵה הֲוֵית בְּחֶזְוִי עִם־לֵֽילְיָא וַאֲרוּ אַרְבַּע רוּחֵי שְׁמַיָּא מְגִיחָן לְיַמָּא רַבָּֽא׃ וְאַרְבַּע חֵיוָן רַבְרְבָן סָלְקָן מִן־יַמָּא שָׁנְיָן דָּא מִן־דָּֽא׃ קַדְמָיְתָא כְאַרְיֵה וְגַפִּין דִּֽי־נְשַׁר לַהּ חָזֵה הֲוֵית עַד דִּי־מְּרִיטוּ גַפַּהּ וּנְטִילַת מִן־אַרְעָא וְעַל־רַגְלַיִן כֶּאֱנָשׁ הֳקִימַת וּלְבַב אֱנָשׁ יְהִיב לַֽהּ׃
ORIGINAL

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ḥazeh haveit be-ḥezvi im-leilya ... ve-arba ḥeivan raveravan salqan min-yamma
READING

Pedagogical reading guide

Daniel 7:2–4: four winds stir the sea, four beasts arise, and the first is described.
MEANING

Biblical Aramaic

7:2 seeing formula + winds and sea · 7:3 four beasts arise · 7:4 first beast: comparison, wings removed, body raised, human heart given

EXAMPLES

Examples supplied by the approved curriculum.

Close translation — 7:2: ‘Daniel answered and said: I was seeing in my vision during the night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.’ 7:3: ‘And four great beasts were rising from the sea, each different from the other.’ 7:4: ‘The first was like a lion and had eagle’s wings. I kept watching until its wings were plucked; it was lifted from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it.’

SOURCE REFERENCE

Daniel 7:2–4

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APPROVED STUDY LAYERS

Source-specific guidance from the curriculum.

Learning objective

Read a bounded vision passage, distinguishing the progressive seeing formula, plural descriptive forms, and symbolic vocabulary.

Morphology and syntax

MAM supplies the reading text; OSHB identifies חָזֵה as a participle, הֲוֵית as Peal perfect 1cs, and the plural descriptive forms.

Dialect boundary

Biblical Aramaic of Daniel and Ezra. Later Targumic, Jewish Babylonian, and Zoharic forms are not imported into this lesson.

Practice

Find the participle + הוה construction, the two feminine plural verbs in verse 3, and the two phrases comparing the beast to a lion and a human.

Answer key

Participle + הוה: חָזֵה הֲוֵית. Feminine plural verbs: סָלְקָן and שָׁנְיָן. Comparisons: כְאַרְיֵה and כֶּאֱנָשׁ.

Source notes

MAM reads גַפַּהּ in Daniel 7:4; OSHB/WLC reads גַפַּיהּ. The lesson follows MAM and records the variant rather than combining the witnesses.

REMEMBER

Gloss rare symbols, but parse the recurring grammar yourself.