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belshazzar
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What does belshazzar mean?
proper noun
- Alternative form of Balthazar.
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noun
- (dated) An early kind of overhead projector.
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Belshazzar trembled when he saw the fingers of a man's hand writing upon the wall, Mene tekel phares.
To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.
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The expression used of Belshazzar in Daniel v. 27, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting" (and the analogue in Job xxxi.
This was a small human hand, in the act of lifting pieces of fuel into the fire, but for all that could be seen the hand, like that which troubled Belshazzar, was there alone.