The Meaning of Daniel 11:34 Explained

Daniel 11:34

KJV: Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

YLT: And in their stumbling, they are helped -- a little help, and joined to them have been many with flatteries.

Darby: And when they fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

ASV: Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Now when they shall fall,  they shall be holpen  with a little  help:  but many  shall cleave  to them with flatteries. 

What does Daniel 11:34 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The godly in Israel received little encouragement from their apostate Proverbs -Hellenistic brethren at first. Even the Maccabean revolt started out small. As time went by and the Maccabees" effectiveness became apparent, more Jews joined their Numbers , but many of them did so without abandoning their Proverbs -Hellenistic convictions. They hypocritically joined the nationalists. Eventually the Maccabees had to purge their own ranks. They executed many of their fellow Jews.

Context Summary

Daniel 11:30-45 - Arrogance Overthrown
The career of Antiochus Epiphanes, in persecuting the people of God and plotting against Jehovah and His sanctuary, is so described as to suggest that it also includes further fulfillments, and especially that last Antichrist, of whom Antiochus was the pre-figurement. So accurate is the correspondence between this prophecy and its historical fulfillment that Porphyry, the opponent of Christianity, maintained that this description was written after the event. The abomination of Daniel 11:31 refers to the idolatrous image or emblem, which in succession has been erected on Mount Zion under the auspices of Antiochus, of the Romans, the Moslems, and shall be set up yet once more by Antichrist. The last clause of Daniel 11:32 was marvelously realized in Judas Maccabaeus and his brethren; but it represents the perennial source of strength for all who suffer or serve. The anguish of those who fail under trial has often tended to their greater purification, Daniel 11:35, and the white robe is the mark of final victory, Revelation 7:9. God will not allow His people to suffer beyond the determined time, Daniel 11:36; Matthew 24:22. [source]

Chapter Summary: Daniel 11

1  The overthrow of Persia by the king of Grecia
5  Leagues and conflicts between the kings of the south and of the north
30  The invasion and tyranny of the Romans

What do the individual words in Daniel 11:34 mean?

Now when they fall they shall be aided with a help little but shall join with them many by intrigue
וּבְהִכָּ֣שְׁלָ֔ם יֵעָזְר֖וּ עֵ֣זֶר מְעָ֑ט וְנִלְו֧וּ עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם רַבִּ֖ים בַּחֲלַקְלַקּֽוֹת

וּבְהִכָּ֣שְׁלָ֔ם  Now  when  they  fall 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Verb, Nifal, Infinitive construct, third person masculine plural
Root: כָּשַׁל  
Sense: to stumble, stagger, totter.
יֵעָזְר֖וּ  they  shall  be  aided 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: עָזַר  
Sense: to help, succour, support.
עֵ֣זֶר  with  a  help 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: עֵזֶר  
Sense: help, succour.
מְעָ֑ט  little 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: מְעַט  
Sense: littleness, few, a little, fewness.
וְנִלְו֧וּ  but  shall  join 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Conjunctive perfect, third person common plural
Root: לָוָה 
Sense: to join, be joined.
עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם  with  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
רַבִּ֖ים  many 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural
Root: רַב 
Sense: much, many, great.
בַּחֲלַקְלַקּֽוֹת  by  intrigue 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: חֲלַקְלַק  
Sense: flattery, slipperiness, fine promises, smoothness.