thirty
te.la.tin denotes a cardinal quantity, occurring in a petition made repeatedly during the day and in the king's interdict context.
The attested form is a masculine plural absolute cardinal adjective used for a quantity in Daniel 6:13 and Daniel 6:8; Daniel 6:13 places it in the report that Daniel makes his petition repeatedly during the day, while its specific contribution is not isolated by the APB wording in Daniel 6:8.
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Cardinal quantity in Daniel's court setting · dominant
Both occurrences are tagged as masculine plural absolute cardinal adjectives. In Daniel 6:13 the APB renders the accusation that Daniel “makes his petition three times a day”; in Daniel 6:8 the form occurs in the command to establish and sign the interdict, though the translation does not visibly isolate a corresponding quantity.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Daniel 6:13 the APB presents the surrounding clause as “makes his petition three times a day.” In Daniel 6:8, the translation gives the interdict command without an identifiable numerical rendering.