Daniel 5:27
Strong's Lexicon
TEKEL
תְּקֵ֑ל (tə·qêl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8625: v 1) to weigh 1a) (P'il) to be weighed n m 2) tekel, shekel 2a) (P'al) tekel-a unit of weight, shekel

means that you have been weighed
תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה (tə·qî·lə·tāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8625: v 1) to weigh 1a) (P'il) to be weighed n m 2) tekel, shekel 2a) (P'al) tekel-a unit of weight, shekel

on the scales
בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א (ḇə·mō·zan·yā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural determinate
Strong's Hebrew 3977: 1) scale, balance

and found
וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ (wə·hiš·tə·ḵa·ḥat)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7912: 1) to find 1a) (Aphel) to find 1b) (Ithp'al) to be found

deficient.
חַסִּֽיר׃ (ḥas·sîr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2627: 1) lacking, wanting, deficient

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Young's Literal Translation
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Holman Christian Standard Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.

New American Standard Bible
"'TEKEL-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

King James Bible
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

New Living Translation
[Tekel] means 'weighed'--you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.

English Standard Version
Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

New American Standard Bible
"'TEKEL '-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

King James Bible
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.

International Standard Version
TEKEL: You've been weighed on the scales—and you don't measure up.

NET Bible
As for teqel--you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.

American Standard Version
TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

English Revised Version
TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Young's Literal Translation
Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
















Cross References
Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Psalm 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Ezekiel 5:1
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

Daniel 1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

Daniel 5:25
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

Daniel 5:24
Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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