Aramaic word · H459

אִלֵּין

'ilein

these

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

these, those

Aramaic of el (אֵל "these" H0411)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Daniel · 5

  1. Daniel 2:40 אִלֵּ֖ין these

    Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.

  2. Daniel 2:44 אִלֵּ֣ין these

    In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.

    Here: "These," pointing to the kingdoms just set out in the dream.

  3. Daniel 6:2 אִלֵּ֗ין these

    and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.

  4. Daniel 6:6 אִלֵּ֔ן these

    So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!

    Here: Points back to 'these men' in v.5, the ones who had just agreed to trap Daniel through his religion. It marks the group as the plotters, not the government acting in good faith.

  5. Daniel 7:17 אִלֵּין֙ these

    ‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.

    Here: Points back at the creatures Daniel has just described (vv. 3–8). It opens the angel's explanation by setting the vision in front of Daniel again: 'these things you saw...'

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