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Da 4:33 Strong Concordance The same hour [08160] was the thing [04406] fulfilled [05487] upon [05922] Nebuchadnezzar [05020]: and he was driven [02957] from [04481] men [0606], and did eat [0399] grass [06211] as oxen [08450], and his body [01655] was wet [06647] with the dew [02920] of heaven [08065], till [05705] his hairs [08177] were grown [07236] like eagles [05403]' feathers, and his nails [02953] like birds [06853]' claws.
  King James The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
driven from men--as a maniac fancying himself a wild beast. It is possible, a conspiracy of his nobles may have co-operated towards his having been "driven" forth as an outcast.

hairs . . . eagles' feathers--matted together, as the hair-like, thick plumage of the ossifraga eagle. The "nails," by being left uncut for years, would become like "claws."
 
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19 Then [0116] Daniel [01841], whose name [08036] was Belteshazzar [01096], was astonied [08075] for one [02298] hour [08160], and his thoughts [07476] troubled [0927] him. The king [04430] spake [06032], and said [0560], Belteshazzar [01096], let not [0409] the dream [02493], or the interpretation [06591] thereof, trouble [0927] thee. Belteshazzar [01096] answered [06032] and said [0560], My lord [04756], the dream [02493] be to them that hate [08131] thee, and the interpretation [06591] thereof to thine enemies [06146].