Footnote

Or, “appointed (definite) times”; or, “time periods.” Aram., ʽid·da·ninʹ; Gr., eʹte, “years”; LXX^Bagster(Gr.), kai·roiʹ, “appointed times”; Lat., temʹpo·ra, “times.” “Years,” BDB, p. 1105; KB, p. 1106; Lexicon Linguae Aramaicae Veteris Testamenti, by E. Vogt, Rome, 1971, p. 124. “Seven times” as seven years are twice three and a half times. Compare 7:25 ftn, “Time”; 12:7 ftn, “Half.”