cha.val denotes harm or damage, whether absent from persons or threatened against royal interests.

The attested uses concern harm or damage: its absence from men in the fire, destructive injury in the lions’ den, and damage that might increase against kings.

1. Harm or damage in peril and warning · dominant

   In Daniel 3:25, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in the statement that harm is not in the four men walking in the fire. In Daniel 6:24, the same form occurs in the account of lions crushing the accusers' bones, while Ezra 4:22 warns that damage may grow against the kings; in Ezra 4:22 the form is determined.

   Daniel 3:25Daniel 6:24Ezra 4:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB renders the clause in Daniel 3:25 with “harm is not in them” and Ezra 4:22 with “lest damage grow”; Daniel 6:24 presents the destructive outcome without an isolable English rendering for the term. The verse is read as a whole.