Lexicon
קֶ֫רֶן
qe.ren
H7162
A:N-F Hebrew

horn

14
Occurrences
1
Books
Hebrew
Language

qe.ren denotes a horn, either heard among instruments or seen as a feature of a beast in Daniel’s vision.

The dominant attested use is for horns associated with the beast in Daniel’s vision, including horns that speak, wage war, and are identified as kings. A second use names the horn heard with other instruments at the command to worship the golden image.

Senses in use

  1. Horns of the beast in the vision · dominant

    In Daniel 7:7 the APB renders the beast as having “ten horns”; Daniel 7:8 describes another small horn rising among them and uprooting three. In Daniel 7:11 and Daniel 7:21, the singular horn speaks great words and wages war, while Daniel 7:24 identifies the ten horns as ten kings.

  2. Horn sounded with musical instruments · common

    In Daniel 3:5, Daniel 3:7, Daniel 3:10, and Daniel 3:15, the determined singular form occurs in the listed sound of instruments that accompanies the command to fall down and worship the golden image. The APB renders the instrument as “horn” alongside the flute, trigon, harp, psaltery, and pipes.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the term as “horn” or “horns”: as an instrument in Daniel 3:5 and as features of the beast in Daniel 7:7. These renderings reflect the clauses as a whole rather than a precise token-by-token mapping.

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