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Selected Verse: Daniel 4:5 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Da 4:5	Strong Concordance	I saw [02370] a dream [02493] which made me afraid [01763], and the thoughts [02031] upon [05922] my bed [04903] and the visions [02376] of my head [07217] troubled [0927] me.
	King James	I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
I saw a dream - That is, he saw a representation made to him in a dream. There is something incongruous in our language in saying of one that he saw a dream. Which made me afraid - The fear evidently arose from the apprehension that it was designed to disclose some important and solemn event. This was in accordance with a prevalent belief then (comp. Dan 2:1), and it may be added that it is in accordance with a prevalent belief now. There are few persons, whatever may be their abstract belief, who are not more or less disturbed by fearful and solemn representations passing before the mind in the visions of the night. Compare Job 4:12-17; Job 33:14-15. So Virgil (Aen. iv. 9): "Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent!" And the thoughts upon my bed - The thoughts which I had upon my bed; to wit, in my dream. And the visions of my head - What I seemed to see. The vision seemed to be floating around his head. Troubled me - Disturbed me; produced apprehension of what was to come; of some great and important event.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

I saw a dream - That is, he saw a representation made to him in a dream. There is something incongruous in our language in saying of one that he saw a dream.

Which made me afraid - The fear evidently arose from the apprehension that it was designed to disclose some important and solemn event. This was in accordance with a prevalent belief then (comp. Dan 2:1), and it may be added that it is in accordance with a prevalent belief now. There are few persons, whatever may be their abstract belief, who are not more or less disturbed by fearful and solemn representations passing before the mind in the visions of the night. Compare Job 4:12-17; Job 33:14-15. So Virgil (Aen. iv. 9):

"Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent!"

And the thoughts upon my bed - The thoughts which I had upon my bed; to wit, in my dream.

And the visions of my head - What I seemed to see. The vision seemed to be floating around his head.

Troubled me - Disturbed me; produced apprehension of what was to come; of some great and important event.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
(4:2) While in this state of security and peace, he was alarmed by a dream. The abrupt manner in which the matter is here introduced well illustrates the unexpected suddenness of the even itself. הרהרין, thoughts, from הרהר, to think, to meditate; in the Mishna and in Syr. images of the imagination; here, images in a dream. The words משׁכּבי על הרהרין are more properly taken as a passage by themselves with the verb, I had (I saw), supplied, than connected with the following noun to יבהלנּני. Regarding ראשׁי חזוי see under Dan 2:28. On this matter Chr. B. Michaelis has well remarked: "Licet somnii interpretationem nondum intelligeret, tamen sensit, infortunium sibi isthoc somnio portendi."

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
I saw a dream - See this dream circumstantially explained in the following verses.

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¹⁴ For God [0410] speaketh [01696] once [0259], yea twice [08147], yet man perceiveth [07789] it not.
¹⁵ In a dream [02472], in a vision [02384] of the night [03915], when deep [08639] sleep falleth [05307] upon men [0582], in slumberings [08572] upon the bed [04904];

¹² Now a thing [01697] was secretly brought [01589] to me, and mine ear [0241] received [03947] a little [08102] thereof.
¹³ In thoughts [05587] from the visions [02384] of the night [03915], when deep sleep [08639] falleth [05307] on men [0582],
¹⁴ Fear [06343] came [07122] upon me, and trembling [07461], which made all [07230] my bones [06106] to shake [06342].
¹⁵ Then a spirit [07307] passed [02498] before my face [06440]; the hair [08185] of my flesh [01320] stood up [05568]:
¹⁶ It stood still [05975], but I could not discern [05234] the form [04758] thereof: an image [08544] was before mine eyes [05869], there was silence [01827], and I heard [08085] a voice [06963], saying,
¹⁷ Shall mortal man [0582] be more just [06663] than God [0433]? shall a man [01397] be more pure [02891] than his maker [06213]?

¹ And in the second [08147] year [08141] of the reign [04438] of Nebuchadnezzar [05019] Nebuchadnezzar [05019] dreamed [02492] dreams [02472], wherewith his spirit [07307] was troubled [06470], and his sleep [08142] brake [01961] from him.

²⁸ But [01297] there is [0383] a God [0426] in heaven [08065] that revealeth [01541] secrets [07328], and maketh known [03046] to the king [04430] Nebuchadnezzar [05020] what [04101] shall be [01934] in the latter [0320] days [03118]. Thy dream [02493], and the visions [02376] of thy head [07217] upon [05922] thy bed [04903], are these [01836];