Daniel 5:27 “TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficie…”

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

World English Bible

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

American Standard Version

TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Geneva Bible 1599

TEKEL, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light.

Darby Translation

TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;

Young's Literal Translation

Weighed — Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

Bible in Basic English

Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

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Cross references

“Thou”

Job 31:6 Psalm 62:9 Jeremiah 6:30 Ezekiel 22:18–20

Job 31:6 · BSB

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Psalm 62:9 · BSB

Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Jeremiah 6:30 · BSB

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Ezekiel 22:18–20 · BSB

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

“art”

1 Corinthians 3:13 Matthew 22:11 Matthew 22:12

1 Corinthians 3:13 · BSB

his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

Matthew 22:11 · BSB

But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

Matthew 22:12 · BSB

‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

28PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

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