Daniel 5 · Verse 28

Daniel 5:28

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel 5:28, King James Version

Daniel 5:28 in other translations

BSBPERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
WEBPERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
ASVPERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
YLTDivided--Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'
DARBYPERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
BBEPeres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.
WebsterPERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

What does Daniel 5:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. Peres--the explanation of "dividers" (Da 5:25), the active participle plural there being used for the passive participle singular, "dividers" for "divided." The word "Peres" alludes to the similar word "Persia." divided--namely, among the Medes and Persians [Maurer]; or, "severed" from thee [Grotius].

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 5:18-31

Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death…

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Daniel 5:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

פְּרֵ֑סpe.ResperesH6537
פְּרִיסַת֙pe.ri.Satit has been broken in twoH6537
מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְmal.khu.Takhkingdom yourH4437
וִיהִיבַ֖תvi.hi.Vatand it has been givenH3052
לְמָדַ֥יle.ma.Daito MedesH4076
וּפָרָֽס\׃u.fa.Rasand PersiansH6540

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Daniel 5:28

  • Isaiah 13:17

    Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

  • Daniel 6:28

    So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

  • Isaiah 21:2

    A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

  • Daniel 5:31

    And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

  • Isaiah 45:1-2

    Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

  • Daniel 9:1

    In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

  • Daniel 8:20

    The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

  • Daniel 8:3-4

    Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
PERES.Peres,"he was divided," pronounced paras, denoted Persians, who seem evidently referred to.
Thy.
31; 6:28; 8:3,4,20; 9:1; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 45:1,2

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Context

  • Daniel 5:27

    TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

  • Daniel 5:28

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

  • Daniel 5:29

    Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Daniel 5:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
PERES: Tu reino fué rompido, y es dado á Medos y Persas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Pérès: Ton royaume est divisé, et donné aux Mèdes et aux Perses.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Peres -dein Königreich wird zerteilt und den Medern und Persern gegeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Phares: divisum est regnum tuum, et datum est Medis, et Persis.