Footnote

Or, “for a season, and seasons and half a season.” Aram., ʽadh-ʽid·danʹ weʽid·da·ninʹ u·phelaghʹ ʽid·danʹ. Here weʽid·da·ninʹ is taken as dual, thus meaning “and two times.” Lexicon Linguae Aramaicae Veteris Testamenti, by E. Vogt, Rome, 1971, p. 124, “ ‘per tempus et (duo) tempora et dimidium tempus’ i. e. per 3¹⁄2 annos [‘for a time and (two) times and half a time,’ that is, for 3¹⁄2 years].” See BDB, p. 1105; KB, p. 1106; BHS, on Da 7:25 ftn “b”; see also 4:16 ftn; 12:7 ftn, “Half.”