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Daniel 5:27

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27‘Tekel’A means that you have been weighedB on the balance and found deficient.

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Footnotes

  1. AOr a shekel
  2. BThe Aramaic word for weighed sounds like tekel.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

NLTNew Living Translation

Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘Tekel’—you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.

KJV 1900King James Version

TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.