Daniel 4:12

meat in the old sense of the word (see on Amos 5:22; and cf. Genesis 1:29-30), food in general, not what we now call -meat." So Daniel 4:21. The Aram. word occurs in Syr. and the Targums; and twice in the Heb. of the O.T., Genesis 45:23 (A.V. -meat," R.V. -victual"), 2 Chronicles 11:23 (A.V., R.V. -victual").

had shadow … dwelt … was fed of it Better, were sheltering …, dwelling …, was being fed from it. The tenses of the original denote what was habitual, and therefore might be observed as taking place continuously at the time of the dream. Cf. for the thought Ezekiel 31:6.