20 'The ram that thou hast seen possessing two horns, [are] the kings of Media and Persia.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Daniel 8:20. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
הָאַ֥יִל אֲשֶׁר־רָאִ֖יתָ בַּ֣עַל הַקְּרָנָ֑יִם מַלְכֵ֖י מָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃
הָאַ֥יִל
אֲשֶׁר
רָאִ֖יתָ
בַּ֣עַל
הַקְּרָנָ֑יִם
מַלְכֵ֖י
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Ὁ κριὸς ὃν εἶδες, ὁ ἔχων τὰ κέρατα, βασιλεὺς Μήδων καὶ Περσῶν.
Ὁ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
κριὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- κριὸς
- Transliteration
- krios
- Morphology
- nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 4
ὃν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὅς
- Transliteration
- hon
- Morphology
- relative pronoun, accusative masculine singular
- Gloss
- whom, which
- Part of Speech
- relative pronoun
- Definition
- Relative pronoun who, which, that.
- Occurrences
- 4123
εἶδες
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- εἶδες
- Transliteration
- edes
- Morphology
- nominative/vocative plural masculine/feminine pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 14
ὁ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
ἔχων
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἔχων
- Transliteration
- echon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 36
τὰ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
κέρατα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- κέρατα
- Transliteration
- kerata
- Morphology
- nominative/accusative neuter plural or feminine nominative singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 37
βασιλεὺς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- βασιλεύς
- Transliteration
- basileus
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- king
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- King or ruler.
- Occurrences
- 3067
Μήδων
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- μήδων
- Transliteration
- medon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 16
καὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- καί
- Transliteration
- kai
- Morphology
- coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and, also, even
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Coordinating conjunction.
- Strong's
- G2532
- Occurrences
- 56730
Περσῶν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- Πέρσης
- Transliteration
- Person
- Morphology
- proper noun/adjective, masculine genitive plural
- Gloss
- of Persians
- Part of Speech
- proper noun/adjective
- Definition
- Persian; member of the Persian people.
- Occurrences
- 47
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܕܟܪܐ ܕܚܙܝܬ ܕܐܝܬ ܠܗ ܩܪ̈ܢܬܐ ܡ̇ܠܟ ܡܕܝ ܘܦܪܣ
ܕܟܪܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- DKR>
- Morphology
- DKR=/~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܕܚܙܝܬ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- DXZJT
- Morphology
- D-XZJ[T
- Occurrences
- 0
ܕܐܝܬ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- D>JT
- Morphology
- D->JT(J/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܠܗ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- LH
- Morphology
- L-H
- Occurrences
- 0
ܩܪ̈ܢܬܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- QR"NT>
- Morphology
- QRN/T=~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܡ̇ܠܟ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- M^LK
- Morphology
- MLK/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܡܕܝ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- MDJ
- Morphology
- MDJ=/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܘܦܪܣ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- WPRS
- Morphology
- W-PRS=/
- Occurrences
- 0
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Aries, quem vidisti habere cornua, rex Medorum est atque Persarum.
Aries
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- aries
- Transliteration
- Aries
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 175
quem
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- quem
- Transliteration
- quem
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 19
vidisti
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- vidisti
- Transliteration
- vidisti
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 3
habere
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- habere
- Transliteration
- habere
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 1
cornua
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- cornua
- Transliteration
- cornua
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 8
rex
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- rex
- Transliteration
- rex
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 2981
Medorum
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- medorum
- Transliteration
- Medorum
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 4
est
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- est
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- verb, present active indicative, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- is
- Occurrences
- 252
atque
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- atque
- Transliteration
- atque
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 755
Persarum
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- persarum
- Transliteration
- Persarum
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 9
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Targum Aramaic
not in current source set
No license-clean Targum panel is currently mapped for this book in the imported public-domain source set.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Daniel 8:3
And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain ram is standing before the stream, and it hath two horns, and the two horns [are] high; and the one [is] higher than the other, and the high one is coming up last.
3 relevance votes