Bible Strands
Daniel 7:2
Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Daniel records a nocturnal vision he experienced while lying on his bed during the first year of Belshazzar’s reign over Babylon (Daniel 7:1).
The words — חָזֵה (cha.Zeh) means “seeing,” and בְּחֶזְוִי (be./chez.V/i) translates to “in my vision,” establishing the literary frame of the dream account rather than introducing a spoken address.
The thread — The imagery of churning winds and a great sea appears in Revelation 7:1, where four winds are restrained at the earth’s four corners, and Revelation 17:15, which explicitly interprets waters as representing peoples, multitudes, and nations.
Why it lands — The text describes a turbulent natural scene that immediately precedes the emergence of four distinct beasts (Daniel 7:3), requiring the reader to treat the vision as a symbolic preview of geopolitical upheaval rather than a literal weather event.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
Cross-references
- Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
- Revelation 17:15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.