“DETERMINED” IN DAN. 9 by D. W. Randall

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 21, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 16

“DETERMINED” IN DAN. 9.

By D. W. Randall

D. W. RANDALL: The word rendered “determined” in Dan. 9:26, 27, is not the same word that is rendered “determined” in verse 24. In the latter case the word is חתך (hhathak), in the former, חרץ (charatz).

The first of these words is defined by Gesenius, “Properly, to cut off. Trop. to divide, and so to determine to decree.” The second is rendered by the same author, “1. pr. to cut, to cut in. 2. To cut to a point, to make pointed, to sharpen. 3. Trop. to decide, to determine.” The former seems to be the more decisive word, giving the idea of complete separation.