Daniel 3:4

And the herald cried aloud lit. with might: Song of Solomon 4:14; Song of Solomon 5:7; and in Heb. (though the substantive is a different one) Jonah 3:8.

peoples, nations, and languages the same pleonastic combination, Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:29, Daniel 4:1; Daniel 5:19; Daniel 6:25; Daniel 7:14; cf. also Isaiah 66:18. Similarly Revelation 5:9; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 10:11; Revelation 11:9; Revelation 13:7; Revelation 14:6; Revelation 17:16. Here the combination is no doubt used under the idea that strangers from different countries ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, as well as from other parts (such as were always to be found in Babylon: Isaiah 13:14 b, Isaiah 47:15; Jeremiah 50:16), would be present on such an occasion.

people s] i.e. nations, a sense not now expressed by the English -people." See the remarks on this word in the Preface to the Revised Version of the O.T.