Skip to main content

Daniel 12:4

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

KJV

Tu autem Daniel, claude sermones, et signa librum usque ad tempus statutum : plurimi pertransibunt, et multiplex erit scientia.

Vulgate

καὶ σύ, Δανιήλ, κάλυψον τὰ προστάγματα καὶ σφράγισαι τὸ βιβλίον ἕως καιροῦ συντελείας, ἕως ἂν ἀπομανῶσιν οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ πλησθῇ ἡ γῆ ἀδικίας.

LXX

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

ASV

וְ/אַתָּ֣ה דָֽנִיֵּ֗אל סְתֹ֧ם הַ/דְּבָרִ֛ים וַ/חֲתֹ֥ם הַ/סֵּ֖פֶר עַד עֵ֣ת קֵ֑ץ יְשֹׁטְט֥וּ רַבִּ֖ים וְ/תִרְבֶּ֥ה הַ/דָּֽעַת

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In this verse

People Daniel

In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
דָֽעַת
d't
verb · 93×
דָּנִיֵּ֣אל
dny'l
proper_noun · 32×
הַרְבֵּ֥ה
hrbh
verb · 233×
יַחְתֹּֽם
ychtm
verb · 27×
ם
m
verb · 14×
מְשֹׁטְט֤וֹת
mshttvt
verb · 13×
סֵ֛פֶר
spr
noun · 188×
עֵ֣ת
't
verb · 293×
עַד
'd
noun · 1257×
קֵּ֖ץ
qts
noun · 66×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Rev 22:10 · allusion
    "And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand."
    Daniel: seal up the words of the book — but John told not to seal

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§992God revealed the resurrection of the dead to his people progressively. Hope in the bodily resurrection of the dead established itself as a consequence intrinsic to faith in God as creator of the whole man, soul and body. the creator of heaven and earth is also the one who faithfully maintains his covenant with Abraham and his posterity. It was in this double perspective that fa…
The treasure hid in the Scriptures is Christ; the true exposition of the Scriptures is to be found in the Church alone. 1. If any one, therefore, reads the Scriptures with attention, he will find in them an account of Christ, and a foreshadowing of the new calling (vocationis). For Christ is the treasure which was hid in the field, Matthew 13:44 that is, in this world (for the …

Cross-references

  • Col 1:10 — That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Dan 8:17 — So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
  • Dan 8:17 — So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
  • Dan 8:26 — And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
  • Dan 8:26 — And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
  • Dan 10:1 — In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, an
  • Dan 10:1 — In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, an
  • Dan 10:14 — Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
  • Dan 10:21 — But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
  • Dan 11:33 — And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
  • Dan 11:35 — And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
  • Dan 11:40 — And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he sha
  • Dan 11:40 — And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he sha
  • Dan 12:9 — And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
  • Dan 12:9 — And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
  • Dan 12:13 — But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
  • Hab 2:2 — And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
  • Isa 8:16 — Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
  • Isa 8:16 — Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
  • Isa 11:9 — They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Isa 29:11 — And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
  • Isa 29:18 — And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
  • Isa 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,
  • Isa 32:3 — And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
  • Matt 24:14 — And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
  • Rev 5:1 — And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
  • Rev 10:4 — And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
  • Rev 10:4 — And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
  • Rev 14:6 — And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
  • Rev 17:9 — And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
  • Rev 22:10 — And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
  • Rev 22:10 — And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
  • Rom 10:18 — But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
  • Zech 14:6 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
  • Zech 14:7 — But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.