chad marks a single person, object, decree, or counted unit, including temporal expressions such as a first year.

The occurrences use the term to mark a single entity or unit: a great image, a decree, a letter, a scroll, or an individual among those standing. In temporal clauses, the same cardinal form occurs where the APB presents the first year of a king.

1. A single entity or unit · dominant

   The cardinal singular forms identify an individual or single item in varied clauses: in Daniel 2:31 the APB renders “a single great image,” in Daniel 2:9 it has “one decree,” and in Ezra 6:2 it has “one scroll.” Daniel 7:16 uses the ordinal masculine singular form in the phrase rendered “one of those standing there,” while Daniel 7:5 describes a beast raised on “one side.”

   Daniel 2:31Daniel 2:9Daniel 7:16Daniel 7:5Ezra 4:8Ezra 6:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents singularity with “a single” in Daniel 2:31 and “one” in Daniel 2:9, Daniel 7:16, and Ezra 6:2. In Daniel 7:1, Ezra 5:13, and Ezra 6:3 it presents the temporal expression as “the first year”; other clauses do not always isolate the term in English.