ne.tal denotes lifting, seen in a creature raised from the earth and in a declaration concerning a king's lost kingdom.

The attested forms occur in contexts of lifting or removal: a passive form accompanies a creature being raised from the earth, while the other occurs in the declaration that a king's kingdom has passed from him.

1. Lifting or removal in a change of state · dominant

   In Daniel 7:4, the Qal passive perfect form occurs after the creature's wings are plucked off; the APB renders the following action as it being "lifted up from the earth." In Daniel 4:31, the Qal perfect first common singular form occurs in the heavenly declaration to the king, where the APB renders the clause "the kingdom has passed from you"; the translation does not isolate the term's specific English counterpart.

   Daniel 7:4Daniel 4:31

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents Daniel 7:4 with the explicit phrase "lifted up from the earth," while Daniel 4:31 presents the surrounding declaration as "the kingdom has passed from you." The precise English contribution of the term in Daniel 4:31 remains unclear.