Daniel 6:1
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָטַב
yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
דָּֽרְיָוֵשׁ
Dârᵉyâvêsh
{Darejavesh, a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings}
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
מַלְכוּ
malkûw
dominion (abstractly or concretely)
מֵאָה
mêʼâh
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
עֶשְׂרִים
ʻesrîym
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
שַׂר
sar
a head person (of any rank or class)
כֹּל
kôl
{properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)}
מַלְכוּ
malkûw
dominion (abstractly or concretely)
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּֽרְיָוֵשׁ Dârᵉyâvêsh
{Darejavesh, a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings}
Study H1868 →יָטַב yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
Study H3190 →כֹּל kôl
{properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)}
Study H3606 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
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