Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided 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."

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

peres’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Pharsin; Thy kingdom was divided, and it shall be given to the Medes and to Persia.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'Peres'--your kingdom has been divided and given to [the] Medes and Persians.'"

Modern King James verseion

HALF-MINAS, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Phares, thy kingdom is dealt in parts, 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 Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

P'res, - snatched away is thy kingdom, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּרס 
P@rac (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

מלכוּ 
Malkuw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 57

is divided
פּרס 
P@rac (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

and given
יהב 
Y@hab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 28

to the Medes
מדי 
Maday (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing

27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. 28 Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.



Cross References

Isaiah 13:17

See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

Daniel 6:28

So this Daniel did well in the kingdom of Darius and in the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.

Isaiah 21:2

A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.

Daniel 5:31

And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

Isaiah 45:1-2

The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;

Daniel 9:1

In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;

Daniel 8:3-4

And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last.

Daniel 8:20

The sheep which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

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