Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

"This [is] the explanation of the matter: 'Mene'--God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end [to] it.

New American Standard Bible

This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENĒ’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

King James Version

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

Holman Bible

This is the interpretation of the message:

MENE means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.

International Standard Version

These are the meanings of the words: MENE: God has audited your kingdom and has ended it.

A Conservative Version

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

American Standard Version

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;

Amplified

This is the interpretation of the message: ‘mene’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it;

Bible in Basic English

This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.

Darby Translation

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;

Julia Smith Translation

This the interpretation of the word: Mene; God numbered thy kingdom and completed it.

King James 2000

This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.

Modern King James verseion

This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

NET Bible

This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene -- God has numbered your kingdom's days and brought it to an end.

New Heart English Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

The Emphasized Bible

This, is the interpretation of the thing, - M'ne, God hath reckoned up thy reign, and ended it:

Webster

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

World English Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

Youngs Literal Translation

This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered -- God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּן 
Den (Aramaic) 
Usage: 58

פּשׁר 
P@shar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 32

of the thing
מלּה 
Millah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 23

מנא 
mene' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

God
אלהּ 
'elahh (Aramaic) 
God, god
Usage: 95

מנה מנא 
M@na' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

מלכוּ 
Malkuw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 57

and finished
שׁלם 
Sh@lam (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing

25 "Now this was the writing that was inscribed: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.' 26 "This [is] the explanation of the matter: 'Mene'--God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end [to] it. 27 " 'Tekel'--you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.



Cross References

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and {his grandson}, until the coming of the time of {his own} land. Then many nations and great kings will let him work.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

Isaiah 13:1-14

The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

Isaiah 21:1-10

The oracle of [the] wilderness of [the] sea: As storm winds passing over in the Negev, {it comes} from [the] desert, from a frightful land.

Isaiah 47:1-15

Come down and sit on [the] dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For {they shall no longer call} you tender and delicate.

Jeremiah 25:11-12

And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 50:1-46

The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of [the] Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:

Daniel 9:2

in [the] first year [of] his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was [that were] to be fulfilled [according to] [the] word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem--seventy years.

Acts 15:18

known from of old.'

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