פַּרְזֶל

Daniel 2:33 פַרְזֶ֑ל פַרְזֶ֔ל iron

its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

Daniel 2:34 פַרְזְלָ֖א iron the

As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

Here: "The iron." The hardest and least precious metal in the statue. In 2:40 it stands for a kingdom that crushes everything.

Daniel 2:35 פַּרְזְלָא֩ iron the

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Here: The iron of the legs and feet (vv.33, 40). It is listed first because the stone struck the feet, so the destruction is pictured moving upward from where the blow landed.

Daniel 2:40 כְּפַרְזְלָ֑א פַרְזְלָא֙ וּֽכְפַרְזְלָ֛א like <the> iron, iron the, and like <the> iron

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.

Daniel 2:41 פַּרְזֶ֔ל פַרְזְלָ֖א פַּ֨רְזְלָ֔א iron, iron the

And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.

Daniel 2:42 פַּרְזֶ֖ל iron

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

Daniel 2:43 פַּרְזְלָא֙ פַרְזְלָ֔א iron the, <the> iron

As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.

Here: "The iron", the material of the fourth kingdom. In v. 40 it stands for crushing, shattering power.

Daniel 2:45 פַּרְזְלָ֨א iron the

And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

Here: "The iron," the fourth kingdom (2:40). It is named first because it is the hardest material and the one nearest the feet the stone struck.

Daniel 4:15 פַרְזֶ֣ל iron

But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.

Here: Iron, the hardest common metal of the day and a byword for strength and harshness. It also appears among the metals of the statue in Daniel 2.

Daniel 4:23 פַרְזֶ֣ל iron

And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’

Here: 'Iron': the hardest common metal of the period. It suggests a binding that cannot be broken.

Daniel 5:4 פַרְזְלָ֖א <the> iron

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Here: 'The iron.' It is the fourth metal, as in the statue's legs (2:33), and the cheapest of the metals, which carries the list down toward plain raw material.

Daniel 5:23 פַרְזְלָ֜א <the> iron

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Here: 'The iron.' The list of metals recalls the statue of chapter 2 (gold, silver, bronze, iron), which also stood for passing human empires.

Daniel 7:7 פַרְזֶ֥ל iron

After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

Here: Iron is unnatural for an animal's teeth. It ties this beast to the iron legs and the iron fourth kingdom of the statue in Daniel 2:33, 40.

Daniel 7:19 פַרְזֶל֙ iron

Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.