Upharsin

And they are dividing, a Chaldee word, an active plural form with the conjunction prefixed; while PERES or PHARES, from the same root, is a passive participle, and means divided, Dan 5:25,28 .\par

Upharsin. (numbered). (Or Parsin, Revised Standard Version. The third word, of the mysterious inscription written upon the wall, of Belshazzar’s palace, in which Daniel read the doom of the king and his dynasty. Dan 5:25. [For the interpretation of this word, see Peres.]

[Uphar’sin] See MENE.

UPHARSIN.—See Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin.

ū́-far´sin (וּפרסין, ūpharṣı̄n). See MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.