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Ezra 4:16 אִיתַ֖י there

We advise the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, you will have no dominion west of the Euphrates.

Ezra 5:17 אִיתַ֗י there

Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

Daniel 2:10 אִיתַ֤י there

The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.

Daniel 2:11 אִיתַ֔י אִיתֽוֹהִי׃ there, there it

What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”

Here: "There is." With the negative it flatly denies that any such person exists. It repeats the "there is no man" of 2:10.

Daniel 2:26 הַֽאִיתָ֣ךְ ¿ [are] you

The king responded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me what I saw in the dream, as well as its interpretation?”

Daniel 2:28 אִיתַ֞י there

But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:

Here: A word stating that something exists (like Hebrew yesh). Daniel is not only saying what God is like but that such a God really exists, answering the experts' claim in 2:11 that only gods 'whose dwelling is not with flesh' could do this.

Daniel 2:30 אִיתַ֥י there

And to me this mystery has been revealed, not because I have more wisdom than any man alive, but in order that the interpretation might be made known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

Daniel 3:12 אִיתַ֞י there

But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”

Here: An existential particle, 'there exist'. It opens the charge as a formal report to the king, the way an informer begins: 'There are certain men…' Compare Haman's 'There is a certain people' (Esther 3:8).

Daniel 3:14 אִֽיתֵיכוֹן֙ are you

and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?

Here: The Aramaic word for "there is," with "you" attached. Used with a participle it stresses an ongoing state: "you are (in fact) not serving." It points at their settled practice, not at one lapse.

Daniel 3:15 אִֽיתֵיכ֣וֹן are you

Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I have made, very good. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

Here: The 'there is' particle with the suffix 'you' (plural), working as 'you are'. It echoes v. 14, where the same form asked whether they 'are not serving' his gods.

Daniel 3:17 אִיתַ֗י there

If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.

Here: A particle of existence, like Hebrew yesh. It can mean 'there is / it is so' standing alone, or it can act as a helper verb ('is') joined to the participle 'able' later in the clause. Which of these it does here decides how the whole verse reads.

Daniel 3:18 אִיתַ֣נָא are we

But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”

Here: The Aramaic word for "there is", with the ending "we" attached: "we are". Paired with the next word, it describes a settled state: "we are not people who serve". This is the same word that opens verse 17 ("if there is…").

Daniel 3:25 אִיתַ֣י there

“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

Here: A word that simply says something exists. With lāʾ it means 'there is no…'. The point is that there is no injury at all, not merely a slight one.

Daniel 3:29 אִיתַי֙ there

Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

Here: Particle of existence. With lāʾ it means 'there is not'.

Daniel 4:35 אִיתַי֙ there

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Here: 'There exists'. With the negative it means 'there is no one'. It echoes 2:10, where the Chaldeans said 'there is no man on earth' who could do what the king demanded.

Daniel 5:11 אִיתַ֨י there

There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners. Your own father, the king,

Here: A particle of existence that opens the queen's speech: 'There is…' It presents Daniel as a fact the panicking king has overlooked — the answer already exists inside his own realm.