Daniel 4:11
New International Version
The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth.

New Living Translation
The tree grew very tall and strong, reaching high into the heavens for all the world to see.

English Standard Version
The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

Berean Standard Bible
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.

King James Bible
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

New King James Version
The tree grew and became strong; Its height reached to the heavens, And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth.

New American Standard Bible
‘The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

NASB 1995
The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

NASB 1977
‘The tree grew large and became strong, And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
The tree grew large and became strong, And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

Amplified Bible
‘The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to heaven, And it was visible to the end of the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached to the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached to the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.

American Standard Version
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the tree was raised up and it was mighty and its height arrived unto Heaven and its appearance to all the ends of the Earth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:

Contemporary English Version
It grew stronger and higher, until it reached to heaven and could be seen from anywhere on earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The tree was great, and strong: and the height thereof reached unto heaven: the sight thereof was even to the ends of all the earth.

English Revised Version
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The tree grew, and it became strong enough and tall enough to reach the sky. It could be seen everywhere on earth.

Good News Translation
It grew bigger and bigger until it reached the sky and could be seen by everyone in the world.

International Standard Version
The tree grew large, became strong, and its top reached the sky. It could be seen to the ends of the earth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The tree grew, and was strong, And the height thereof reached unto heaven, And the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

Literal Standard Version
the tree has become great, indeed, strong, and its height reaches to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;

Majority Standard Bible
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.

New American Bible
and cried aloud in these words: ‘Cut down the tree and lop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit; Let the beasts flee from beneath it, and the birds from its branches,

NET Bible
The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

New Revised Standard Version
The tree grew great and strong, its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth.

New Heart English Bible
The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and it could be seen anywhere on earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
The tree grew, and was strong, and its hight reached to heaven, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth:

World English Bible
The tree grew and was strong. Its height reached to the sky and its sight to the end of all the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;

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Context
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of a Great Tree
10In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great. 11The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth. 12Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

Ezekiel 31:5
Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters.

Daniel 4:21
whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested--

Daniel 4:22
you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached to heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

reached.

Daniel 4:21,22
Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: …

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

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Daniel 4
1. Nebuchadnezzar confesses God's kingdom,
4. makes relation of his dreams, which the magicians could not interpret.
8. Daniel hears the dream.
19. He interprets it.
28. The dream fulfilled.














(11) The tree grew.--It appeared in the vision to grow gradually larger and larger. According to the LXX., "The sun and moon dwelled in it and gave light to the whole earth."

The sight thereof--i.e., the tree could be seen from the most distant parts of the known world.

Verse 11. - The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth. This verse is transposed in the Septuagint with the following verse, and is rendered, "And its appearance (ὅρασις) was great, and its top approached to the heavens, and its breadth (κύτος, equivalent to 'branches') filled (πληροῦν) to the clouds all things beneath the heaven and the sun and the moon were, and dwelt in it, and enlightened all the earth." The addition in the last clause is a singular and picturesque one to one standing beneath a spreading tree; sun and moon might pierce with their rays through some thin points in the foliage, but they would seem never to get beyond the widespread branches of the tree, and therefore it would be but a poetical mode of statement to say, "the sun and moon dwelt amid the branches." At the same time, it is not impossible that there was some astronomical legend of the sun and moon and the tree of life. If this proclamation was originally written in cuneiform, there might easily be some difficulty at times in deciphering and fixing in which of a dozen possible senses a given word must be taken. The variation is beyond the region of mere ordinary blundering in Aramaic. On the other hand, it seems too picturesque for the work of a commonplace interpolator. Theodotion in the main agrees with the Massoretic, but instead of "sight thereof," he has "breadth (κότος) thereof," reading some such word as path-ootheh instead of hazotheh. The Peshitta is in close agreement with the received text. To those who, like the Babylonian, believed the earth to he a vast plain, it was not inconceivable that a tree should be so high as to be seen over the whole earth. It is a very suitable symbol of a great world-empire. At the same time, we must remember that the great variation in this verse in the Septuagint makes its authenticity somewhat doubtful.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The tree
אִֽילָנָ֖א (’î·lā·nā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 363: A tree

grew large
רְבָ֥ה (rə·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7236: To grow great

and strong;
וּתְקִ֑ף (ū·ṯə·qip̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8631: To become, mighty, obstinate

its top
וְרוּמֵהּ֙ (wə·rū·mêh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7314: Altitude

reached
יִמְטֵ֣א (yim·ṭê)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4291: To arrive, extend, happen

the sky,
לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א (liš·may·yā)
Preposition-l | Noun - mdd
Strong's 8065: The sky

and it was visible
וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ (wa·ḥă·zō·w·ṯêh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2379: Sight, visibility

to the ends
לְס֥וֹף (lə·sō·wp̄)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5491: A termination

of the earth.
אַרְעָֽא׃ (’ar·‘ā)
Noun - feminine singular determinate
Strong's 772: The earth, low


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