Daniel 2:31

sawest more exactly, wast seeing. So Daniel 2:34.

This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was surpassing] -Excellent" in Old English (from excello, to rise up out of, to surpass) had the distinctive meaning, which it has now lost, of surpassing, preeminent; and it is regularly to be understood with this force, wherever it occurs in P.B.V. of the Psalms, in A.V., and (usually) even in R.V. See the passages cited in the Note at the end of the Chapter; and cf. Blundeville, Exercises, fol. 156 a(ed. 1594), stars are not seen by day "because they are darkened by the excellentbrightness of the sun" (W. A. Wright, Bible Word-book, s.v.).

form aspect (R.V.), or appearance. Cf. Genesis 12:11; 2 Samuel 14:27 (and elsewhere), where the Hebrew is lit. -fair of aspect."