What Does "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin" Mean?
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- "Mene, mene, tekel, parsin", is an Aramaic phrase found in chapter five of the book of Daniel, the story of Belshazzar and the handwriting on the wall. (Fun fact: this is where we get the colloquial phrase "writing on the wall.")
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mene (מְנָֽה) = numbered
tekel (תְּקֵ֑ל) = a half or 'divided' shekel
upharsin (וּפַרְסִֽין) = '"and Farsi" (the Persian language group)
The incoming Persians and Medes traded in Aramaic, ignoring Nebuchadnezzar's decree to trade in Akkadian. Aram, centuries earlier, had adopted the Canaanite alphabet, enabling them to trade out to India and to replace Phoenician in Mediterranean market places.
Hebrew had only survived as a religious language, and this tale marks the point at which Akkadian was relegated to a provincial tongue, with its kings displaced from the currency.
The success of alphabets in general also meant the writing was on the wall for Cuneiform, which had a long, slow death. Used in inscriptions into the C1st AD, but only made intelligible by being accompanied by Aramiac, Persian and, later, Greek translations.
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אחי זה לא אומר שום דבר
It meant nothing to Balshazzar, but something to those aware of its literary and cultural context.
Thank you for such clarity. You seem to know much about ancient languages. Please elaborate more on: Hebrew, Amharic, Greek, Medes etc
@@abuyekaanuna6038 I recommend the book 'Empires of The Word' by Nicholas Ostler. It's a well referenced, scholarly work, but lays out the histories of the world's written languages in layman's terms.
Amharic, the language of Ethiopia, has features in common with Akkadian/Semitic languages, supporting the belief that its aristocracy descended from the Biblical Queen of Sheba and Solomon, with a shared culture extending back into pre-history/ pre-writing.
He wrote it that way so that Belshazar would sweat a little before his doom, knowing that the king and all of his people would not be able to understand what was written.
It is astonishing that you, with your academic background, give the impression that there is only one Aramaic version of this text, although there is actually a text-critical department in theology and the version of the text in the Septuagint is different and from my point of view makes more sense. In the Septuagint there are not four words at this point, but only three: ἠρίθμηται κατελογίσθη ἐξῆρται (Dan 5:17 LXT). This fits better with three three-part interpretations of Daniel and the terms are all different and make logical sense: counted, calculated/considered, removed.
ἠρίθμηται ὁ χρόνος σου τῆς βασιλείας
ἀπολήγει ἡ βασιλεία σου συντέτμηται καὶ συντετέλεσται
ἡ βασιλεία σου τοῖς Μήδοις καὶ τοῖς Πέρσαις δίδοται (Dan 5:26 LXT)
Basically it means "you're dead meat" }))
Pretty much :)
In the standard version, I see ME'NE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN what is the significance of the apostrophe in the first word? It is a bit of loose extrapolation Daniel made of the text?
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Mene Mene Tekel, Upharsin. not parsin. It means "Weighted two times, and found not heavy enough." It is about the insistence with corruption. Like the seller from the market steals from you, and gives you less amount of vegetables than you're paying for. It was used back then as a death sentence formula.
It African the Bantu language that part you'll never tell. The translation was a little off when the Roman-Greeks stole it.
Exactly. And the meaning has been found to be Nigerian
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Bel-Sha-ZÁR is the pronunciation used. Not BÉL-shazzer.
Same
American pronounciation butchers any non-English words. Hell, even some English words
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Mene=1.000
Mene=1.000
Tekel= 500
Upharsin =20
Numbered them =2.520 years
The cut down tree of nabuhodonosor to the beasr with the 10 horn and 7 heads
The one head that got the mortal blow and now revived is Babylon
THATS what God has tell me MENE MENE suddenly destruction COMETH amen hallelujah in God We trust amen hallelujah
I hear this sentence this morning
The homeless keep tagging up my property writing this.
Surely, it’s; Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. Didn’t you say, Parsin?
mene mene kel ufarsin is the correct spelling ...
Read it again. Hint: it's a warning.
mene mene manimo
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It was written I Hebrew. Daniel was a jew.
Aramaic is hebrew. Jesus spoke Aramaic. His name in Aramaic is Yahshuah Ha'mashiac. Why was His name translated? Names don't get translated.
@@Rebecca-1111 Aramaic is not Hebrew
@@davidasehinde4236 thought it is a form of it? Correct it's not Hebrew they use now.
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Menemene uphansile is actually Xhosa language, plagiarised.....Menemene means being UNTRUSTWORTHY ...it's not Aramic, Jewish or any other language except,,, a Nguni dilect....tekel parsin is....uphansile mean "You are down" pure Nguni Xhosa
Nope not true, it's a Yoruba language:
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This is a Xhosa language. Mene mene tekele uphanzile. Not Aramaic
It's Aramaic. And they live in Nigeria:
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My personal hypothesis is, which is not the Truth of God. However, by some random accident of Mother Nature, might have the outside chance of becoming into harmony with God's personal order of it is, " That the sins of man have increased so greatly against God and His People which were in bondage under them that, there is not one single thing in the world that can be done by their machinations which will justify nor "redeem" ; ) nor save their body, spirit and souls from the oncoming wrath and judgement of the Almighty God. From the lowest in their synagogues, (not the victims) to their highest of high places with which the inflict their machinations and their pretenses and machinations under the true name of "Higher Learning, wisdom and, understanding."
For the children of the world had the opportunity to be the taskmasters above the children of The Light in their generation by their wisdom. However, because of their cruelty into their endeavors on the children of The Light, the children cried and, The Father of the True Light, which, exists pre-eminently over all space and time has heard their cries by reason of their taskmasters.
lots of words that spread confusion
TEKEL: Warning! Example: CERN scientists received this message from God!
Interesting. They have parted the vail. Any videos on that I would be interested in it. I think cern is a tower of babel. Quantum computers. Trying to part the vail and bringing the fallen ones. They speak to them.
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