Daniel 4:10
New International Version
These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous.

New Living Translation
“‘While I was lying in my bed, this is what I dreamed. I saw a large tree in the middle of the earth.

English Standard Version
The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

Berean Standard Bible
In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great.

King James Bible
Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

New King James Version
“These were the visions of my head while on my bed: I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great.

New American Standard Bible
‘Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the middle of the earth and its height was great.

NASB 1995
Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth and its height was great.

NASB 1977
‘Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Now these were the visions in my head as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

Amplified Bible
‘The visions that passed through my mind as I lay on my bed were these: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and its height was great.

Christian Standard Bible
In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this: There was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very tall.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this: There was a tree in the middle of the earth, and its height was great.

American Standard Version
Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height thereof was great.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I was in my bed, seeing a tree in the midst of the Earth; its height was great

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I had a vision upon my bed; and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

Contemporary English Version
In my sleep I saw a very tall tree in the center of the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This was the vision of my head in my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was exceeding great.

English Revised Version
Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These are the visions I had while I was asleep: I was looking, and I saw an oak tree in the middle of the earth. It was very tall.

Good News Translation
"While I was asleep, I had a vision of a huge tree in the middle of the earth.

International Standard Version
This is what I saw in the visions of my head while I was in bed: I was looking and—listen carefully!—I saw a tree in the middle of the earth, the height of which was very great.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, And behold a tree in the midst of the earth, And the height thereof was great.

Literal Standard Version
As for the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height [is] great:

Majority Standard Bible
In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great.

New American Bible
In the vision I saw while in bed, a holy watcher came down from heaven

NET Bible
Here are the visions of my mind while I was on my bed. While I was watching, there was a tree in the middle of the land. It was enormously tall.

New Revised Standard Version
Upon my bed this is what I saw; there was a tree at the center of the earth, and its height was great.

New Heart English Bible
Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and look, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus were the visions of my head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its hight was great.

World English Bible
These were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.

Young's Literal Translation
As to the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and lo, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height is great:

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Context
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of a Great Tree
9“O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery baffles you. So explain to me the visions I saw in my dream, and their interpretation. 10In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great. 11The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 31:3
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.

Ezekiel 31:6
All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.

Daniel 4:5
I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.

Daniel 4:20
The tree you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached the sky and was visible to all the earth,


Treasury of Scripture

Thus were the visions of my head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the middle of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

saw.

Daniel 4:20-26
The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; …

Psalm 37:35,36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree…

Isaiah 10:33,34
Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled…

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Daniel 4
1. Nebuchadnezzar confesses God's kingdom,
4. makes relation of his dreams, which the magicians could not interpret.
8. Daniel hears the dream.
19. He interprets it.
28. The dream fulfilled.














(10) A tree.--For this symbol of majesty, comp. Ezekiel 31:3, &c. The dream of Cambyses (Herod. i. 108) was of a similar nature.

Verse 10. - Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The Septuagint is different here, "I was sleeping [on my couch], and behold a lofty tree springing out of the earth, and its appearance was great, and there was not another like to it." The words, "on my couch," are marked with an asterisk, denoting that they have been added, probably from Theodotion. There are indications here of a text slightly different from the Massoretic, even in the latter portion of the verse, where the LXX. and the Massoretic text come closest. Instead of bega,' (בְגוא), "in the midst of," the LXX. reading has been saggeee (שׂגִּיא), "great." The last clause is most widely different from the Massoretic text; instead of "and the height thereof was great," we have, "and there was no other like it." It is not easy to imagine how the one reading grew from the other, roomeh (דוּמֵה), "height," might easily be mistaken for דְמָה (demah), if roomeh were written defectively; but the rest of the clause cannot easily be explained The Massoretic text has a certain redundancy of meaning, which is suspicious. In this verse we are told the tree was "great;" the opening clause of the following says the tree grew; whereas the Septuagint, while asserting its loftiness, asserts also that it was "growing" (φνόμενον). On the whole, we prefer the Septuagint, as it does not proceed to assert further that the tree "grew great." Theodotion, while in the latter portion of the verse agreeing with the Massoretic text, omits the introductory clause. The Pe-shitta is a briefer recension of the Massoretic text, "The vision in my couch was - a tree in the midst of the earth, the height great." The reference here may be, to the sacred tree of the Assyrians, the symbol of life, which is so perpetually introduced into the sculptures of Nineveh, and seen also in some Babylonian cylinders, especially in connection with royal acts of worship, in Lenormant ('La Magie,' p. 27) we find that a sacred tree - a conifer of some sort as seen by the sculptures - was supposed to have the quality of breaking the power of the seven Maskim. Whatever the origin of this belief, it seems to have passed into the faith of Assyria and Babylon, and to have so permeated them that Ezekiel (31) describes Assyria as a mighty cedar. To pass from the empire to its ruler was a specially easy step in regard to an Oriental monarchy, in which the state was the monarch, in the midst of the earth. This refers to the notion each nation had that their own was the middle point, or omphalos, of the world. Though גַו (gav) meant originally really "back," not "middle," yet it is used of the furnace of fire in the preceding chapter, and the primitive meaning is entirely lost in the Targums.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In these visions
וְחֶזְוֵ֥י (wə·ḥez·wê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2376: Vision, appearance

of my mind
רֵאשִׁ֖י (rê·šî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7217: The head, the sum

as I was lying
עַֽל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5922: Above, over, upon, against

in bed,
מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י (miš·kə·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4903: Couch, bed

I saw this
חָזֵ֣ה (ḥā·zêh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2370: To gaze upon, mentally to dream, be usual

come to pass:
הֲוֵ֔ית (hă·wêṯ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1934: To become, come to pass, be

There was
וַאֲל֥וּ (wa·’ă·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 431: Lo!

a tree
אִילָ֛ן (’î·lān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 363: A tree

in the middle
בְּג֥וֹא (bə·ḡō·w)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1459: Midst, middle

of the land,
אַרְעָ֖א (’ar·‘ā)
Noun - feminine singular determinate
Strong's 772: The earth, low

and its height
וְרוּמֵ֥הּ (wə·rū·mêh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7314: Altitude

was great.
שַׂגִּֽיא׃ (śag·gî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7690: Great, much


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