H5245

נמר

namar

Masculine noun · Corresponding to נמר (H5246)

(Aramaic) corresponding to H5246:—leopard.

Outline

leopard

Usages

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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