These
אִלֵּיןStrong’s H0459illen (il-len)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Illen is the Aramaic word usually translated “these”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”
Meaning
- These, those
How it's translated
- these 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:44In contextAnd in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
- Daniel 6:2In contextAnd over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
- Daniel 6:6In contextThen these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
- Daniel 7:17In contextThese great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Aramaic dictionary
אִלֵּין illen · these
these, those Aramaic of el (אֵל "these" H0411)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “these” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THESE, pronoun
plural of this. pronounced theez, and used as an adjective or substitute. these is opposed to those, as this is to that, and when two persons or things or collections of things are named, these refers to the things or persons which are nearest in place or order, or which are last mentioned.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.