H1611

גף

gap

Feminine noun · Corresponding to גף (H1610)

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1610; a wing:—wing.

Outline

wing (of bird)

Usages

Daniel 7:4

The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.

Breakdown

When the lion had wings, it represents the Assyrian Empire (see Lamassu). When the wings thereof were plucked, it represents the Babylonian Empire.

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Daniel 7:6

After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Breakdown

The Greek Empire. Likened to a leopard because a leopard strikes quick. The four wings are the four generals (Cassander, Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and Seleucus (from whom came Antiochus 4) that Alexander the Greek divided the kingdom to upon his death.

These four generals are referred to as The Diadochi, i.e. The Successors

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