Daniel 5:28
Strong's Lexicon
PERES
פְּרֵ֑ס (pə·rês)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6537: v 1) (P'al) to break in two, divide n m 2) half-mina, half-shekel 2a) a unit of measure and weight

means that your kingdom
מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ (mal·ḵū·ṯāḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4437: 1) royalty, reign, kingdom 1a) royalty, kingship, kingly authority 1b) kingdom 1c) realm (of territory) 1d) reign (of time)

has been divided
פְּרִיסַת֙ (pə·rî·saṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6537: v 1) (P'al) to break in two, divide n m 2) half-mina, half-shekel 2a) a unit of measure and weight

and given over
וִיהִיבַ֖ת (wî·hî·ḇaṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3052: 1) to give, provide 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to give 1a2) to place, lay (foundations) 1b) (Hithp'al) 1b1) to be given 1b2) to be paid

to the Medes
לְמָדַ֥י (lə·mā·ḏay)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4076: Medes = 'middle land' n pr m 1) an inhabitant of Media n pr loc 2) the territory inhabited by the Medes 2a) located northwest of Persia proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea, east of Armenia and Assyria, and west and northwest of the great salt desert of Iram

and Persians.”
וּפָרָֽס׃ (ū·p̄ā·rās)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6540: Persia = 'pure' or 'splendid' 1) the empire Persia; encompassed the territory from India on the east to Egypt and Thrace on the west, and included, besides portions of Europe and Africa, the whole of western Asia between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian and the Jaxartes on the north, the Arabian desert, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean on the south 1a) Persia proper was bounded on the west by Susiana or Elam, on the north by Media, on the south by the Persian Gulf and on the east by Carmania Persian = see Persia 'pure' or 'splendid' 2) the people of the Persian empire

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Young's Literal Translation
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Holman Christian Standard Bible
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New American Standard Bible
"'PERES-- your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

King James Bible
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

New Living Translation
[Parsin] means 'divided'--your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

English Standard Version
Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

New American Standard Bible
"'PERES '-- your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

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

Holman Christian Standard 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."

NET Bible
As for peres--your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

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

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

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
















Cross References
Acts 2:9
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,

Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

Isaiah 45:1
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

Isaiah 45:2
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Daniel 6:28
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

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 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

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