Daniel 7:3
What does Daniel 7:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Daniel 7:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and four great beasts are coming up from the sea, diverse one from another.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.
Context
v.2Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.
v.3This passage
v.4The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Daniel 2:32
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
- Psalms 76:4
Glorious art thou and excellent, From the mountains of prey.
- Daniel 2:37
Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
- Ezekiel 19:3
And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
- Revelation 13:1
and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
- Daniel 7:17
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
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