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Daniel 7:8

“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שְׂכַלsᵉkal · sek-al'
H7920 · Aramaic
Definition
{to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent}
Derivation
(Aramaic) corresponding to H7919 (שָׂכַל)
KJV renderings
consider.
Grammar
  • מִשְׂתַּכַּ֨ל — verb Hithpaal, active participle, masculine, singular, absolute
Code AVMrmsa
Usage
Occurs 1 times in the Hebrew Bible.

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.