Daniel 2:16
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Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.

and desired.

Daniel 2:9-11 If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. . . .

Daniel 1:18,19 And when the days were ended, after which the king had ordered they should be brought in: the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor. . . .

Context
The Dream Revealed to Daniel
15And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel, 16Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.17And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions:…
Cross References
Daniel 2:15
And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel,

Daniel 2:17
And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions:

Lexicon
So Daniel
וְדָ֣נִיֵּ֔אל (wə·ḏā·nî·yêl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1841: Daniel -- 'God is my judge', an Israelite leader in Babylon

went in
עַ֖ל (‘al)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5954: To enter, to introduce

and asked
וּבְעָ֣ה (ū·ḇə·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1156: To seek, ask

the king
מַלְכָּ֑א (mal·kā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's Hebrew 4430: A king

to give
יִנְתֵּן־ (yin·tên-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5415: To give

him
לֵ֔הּ (lêh)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

some time,
זְמָ֣ן (zə·mān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2166: An appointed occasion

so that he could give
לְהַֽחֲוָיָ֥ה (lə·ha·ḥă·wā·yāh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2324: To show

[him]
לְמַלְכָּֽא׃ (lə·mal·kā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's Hebrew 4430: A king

the interpretation.
וּפִשְׁרָ֖א (ū·p̄iš·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's Hebrew 6591: An interpretation


Additional Translations
So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.

And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

And Daniel intreated the king to give him time, and that he might thus declare to the king the interpretation of it.

And Daniel went in, and requested of the king that he would give him time, that he might shew the king the interpretation.

And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would shew the king the interpretation.

Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.

Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

and Daniel hath gone up, and sought of the king that he would give him time to shew the interpretation to the king.
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