Daniel 5:26
New International Version
“Here is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

New Living Translation
This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.

English Standard Version
This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

Berean Standard Bible
And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

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

New King James Version
This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;

New American Standard Bible
This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

NASB 1995
“This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE ‘— God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

NASB 1977
“This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE’ —God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

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

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

Christian Standard 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.

Holman Christian Standard 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.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
This is the interpretation of the word : ‘Meneh’ ‘God has assessed your kingdom and has finished it’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured thy kingdom, and finished it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is its meaning: Numbered-God has numbered the days of your kingdom and will bring it to an end.

Good News Translation
And this is what it means: number, 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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

Literal Standard Version
This [is] the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God has numbered your kingdom, and has finished it.

Majority Standard Bible
And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

New American Bible
, God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it;

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 Revised Standard Version
This is the interpretation of the matter: mene , God has numbered the days of your kingdom 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;

Webster's Bible Translation
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 counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.

Young's Literal Translation
This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered -- God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

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Context
Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
25Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. 26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 27TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.…

Cross References
Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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

Jeremiah 27:7
All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 50:41
Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.

Daniel 5:25
Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.


Treasury of Scripture

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

God.

Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Isaiah 13:1-22
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see…

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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
[And] this
דְּנָ֖ה (də·nāh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 1836: This

is the interpretation
פְּשַֽׁר־ (pə·šar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6591: An interpretation

of the message:
מִלְּתָ֑א (mil·lə·ṯā)
Noun - feminine singular determinate
Strong's 4406: A word, command, discourse, subject

MENE
מְנֵ֕א (mə·nê)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4484: Maneh, mina (a measure of weight)

means that God
אֱלָהָ֥א (’ĕ·lā·hā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 426: God

has numbered
מְנָֽה־ (mə·nāh-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4483: To count, appoint

the days of your reign
מַלְכוּתָ֖ךְ (mal·ḵū·ṯāḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4437: Royalty, reign, kingdom

and brought it to an end.
וְהַשְׁלְמַֽהּ׃ (wə·haš·lə·mah)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8000: To complete, to restore


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