Daniel 7:2

Daniel answered and said, I saw properly, I was seeing(or beholding), as Daniel 4:10; Daniel 4:13: so Daniel 7:4; Daniel 7:6; Daniel 7:9; Daniel 7:11(twice), 13, 21. LXX. and Theod. rightly render by ἐθεώρουν.

the four winds of the heaven The same expression, Daniel 8:8; Daniel 11:4; Zechariah 2:6; Zechariah 6:5; 2Es 13:5.

strove upon were breaking forth (see Judges 20:33 Heb.) on to, creating a great disturbance of the waters. A.V. stroveis to be explained from the sense which the word has in the Targums. The root means to breakor burst forth, of water (as Job 38:8); but in the Targums it is common, in the conjug. here used, in the sense of to wage war, lit. to cause war to break forth, as Deuteronomy 20:4, and even with -war" omitted, Joshua 23:3 al.; hence strove. However, the prep. which here follows does not mean upon, but to.

the great sea a name of the Mediterranean Sea, Joshua 1:4; Joshua 9:1 al.However, that sense is not to be pressed here; the -great sea," tossed up by the four winds of heaven, symbolizes the agitated world of nations (cf. Daniel 7:3 with Daniel 7:17; and comp. Revelation 17:15: also Isaiah 17:12).