Daniel 5:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

New Living Translation
Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.

English Standard Version
Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Berean Study Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

New American Standard Bible
‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

NASB 1995
"'TEKEL '-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

NASB 1977
“ ‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Amplified Bible
‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient;

Christian Standard Bible
‘Tekel’ means that you have been weighed on the balance and found deficient.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.

Good News Translation
weight, you have been weighed on the scales and found to be too light;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Weighed-you have been weighed on a scale and found to be too light.

International Standard Version
TEKEL: You've been weighed on the scales—and you don't measure up.

NET Bible
As for teqel--you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

New King James Version
TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;

King James 2000 Bible
TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

New Heart English Bible
TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

World English Bible
TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

American King James Version
TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

American Standard Version
TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

A Faithful Version
TEKEL: You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.

Darby Bible Translation
TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;

English Revised Version
TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Webster's Bible Translation
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Tekel, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
THECEL, thou art wayed in the balauce, and art founde wanting.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thetel, Thou art weyed in the balaunce, and art founde to light:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Weighed—You are weighed in the balances, and have been found lacking.

Young's Literal Translation
Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

Smith's Literal Translation
Tekel; Thou shalt be weighed in the balances and be found wanting.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Catholic Public Domain Version
THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
‘Teqel’ ‘You are weighed in a balance and you are found lacking’

Lamsa Bible
TEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.


















Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Young's Literal Translation
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Holman Christian Standard Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.

New American Standard Bible
"'TEKEL-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

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