Daniel 5:28
New International Version
Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New Living Translation
Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

English Standard Version
Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Berean Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

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

New King James Version
PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New American Standard Bible
‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

NASB 1995
“’PERES ‘— your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

NASB 1977
“ ‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Legacy Standard Bible
‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Amplified Bible
‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Christian Standard Bible
‘Peres’ means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

American Standard Version
PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
‘Peras’ ‘Your kingdom is divided and is given to Media and to Persia’”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Phares; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Douay-Rheims Bible
PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.

English Revised Version
PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Divided-your kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Good News Translation
divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians."

International Standard Version
PERES: Your kingdom has been divided—and will be given to the Medes and Persians."

JPS Tanakh 1917
PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

Literal Standard Version
Divided—Your kingdom is divided, and it has been given to the Medes and Persians.”

Majority Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

New American Bible
, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

NET Bible
As for peres--your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

New Revised Standard Version
peres , your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New Heart English Bible
PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

Webster's Bible Translation
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

World English Bible
PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Young's Literal Translation
Divided -- Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'

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Context
Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
27TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” 29Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.…

Cross References
Acts 2:9
Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

Isaiah 21:2
A dire vision is declared to me: "The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning."

Isaiah 45:1
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

Isaiah 45:2
"I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Daniel 5:31
and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

Daniel 6:8
Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed--in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed."


Treasury of Scripture

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

PERES.

Thy.

Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Daniel 6:28
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Daniel 8:3,4,20
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…

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Daniel 5
1. Belshazzar's impious feast.
5. A hand-writing unknown to the magicians, troubles the king.
10. At the commendation of the queen Daniel is brought.
17. He, reproving the king of pride and idolatry,
25. reads and interprets the writing.
30. The monarchy is translated to the Medes
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
PERES
פְּרֵ֑ס (pə·rês)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6537: To break in two

means that your kingdom
מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ (mal·ḵū·ṯāḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4437: Royalty, reign, kingdom

has been divided
פְּרִיסַת֙ (pə·rî·saṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6537: To break in two

and given over
וִיהִיבַ֖ת (wî·hî·ḇaṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3052: To give, to put, imperatively, come

to the Medes
לְמָדַ֥י (lə·mā·ḏay)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4076: Medes -- descendants of Japheth, also their land

and Persians.”
וּפָרָֽס׃ (ū·p̄ā·rās)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6540: Persians -- a country in west Asia which conquered Babylon


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