Dan 5:28, 8:20 | ESV | STEP | Peres , your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians .

a ver. 31; [ch. 9:1; Isa. 13:17; 21:2; Jer. 51:28]

Daniel 5:28

28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to ^athe Medes and ^bPersians.” ^{▼▼ Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia}

Daniel 8:20

20 As for ^dthe ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of ^eMedia and Persia.