te.vat denotes fasting, attested as an adverbial circumstance in the account of the king at the lions’ den.

The attested use denotes fasting as an adverbial circumstance in the narrative setting where the king rises at dawn and hastens to the lions’ den.

1. Fasting as an adverbial circumstance · dominant

   In Daniel 6:19, the form is tagged as an adverb in the account of the king’s action at dawn. The APB renders the surrounding verse, “Then at dawn the king arose with the light and went in haste to the den of lions,” but does not isolate an English counterpart for the term.

   Daniel 6:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Daniel 6:19, the APB describes the king rising at dawn and going “in haste to the den of lions,” without an explicit English expression corresponding to the term. The verse is read as a whole.