Daniel 1:13
Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
Then let our countenances be looked vpon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruants.
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Daniel 1:13
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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countenances
Faces or facial appearances.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of look, meaning to direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.
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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.
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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.
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countenance
1. The face, or its appearance or expression. 2. Favour, regard, or presence expressed toward someone. 3. To favour or support.
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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.
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A part, share, allotment, inheritance, assigned duty, reward, or outcome belonging or given to someone.
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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.
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Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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Sense 1: A portion, share, or measured quantity. Sense 2: To distribute, conduct oneself, or act toward another.
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Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
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1:8¶ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
1:8¶ But Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himselfe with the portion of the kings meat, nor with the wine which he dranke: therefore hee requested of the Prince of the Eunuches, that hee might not defile himselfe.
1:9Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
1:9Now God had brought Daniel into fauour and tender loue with the Prince of the Eunuches.
1:10And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
1:10And the Prince of the Eunuches said vnto Daniel, I feare my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat, and your drinke: for why should he see your faces †worse liking then the children which are of your ‖sort? then shall yee make mee indanger my head to the King.
1:11Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
1:11Then said Daniel to ‖Melzar, whom the Prince of the Eunuches had set ouer Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
1:12Proue thy seruants, I beseech thee, ten dayes, and let them giue †pulse †to eat, and water to drinke.
1:13Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
1:13Then let our countenances be looked vpon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruants.
Selected passage1:14So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
1:14So hee consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.
1:15And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
1:15And at the end often dayes, their countenances appeared fairer, and fatter in flesh, then all the children, which did eate the portion of the kings meat.
1:16Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
1:16Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink: and gaue them pulse.