Daniel 2:8

“The king answered and said, I know of certainty, etc.] I see plainly and clearly what you are at, and am fully assured you mean nothing, but that ye would gain the time: or buyf78, or redeem time, as in (<490516>Ephesians 5:16), prolong time, put off the answer to longer time; spin out time, as people do in buying and selling; or have it in their possession and power when to answer; and so by gaining time, or being master of it, might hope something would turn up to their advantage, and extricate them out of their present difficulties: because ye see the thing is gone from me; the dream he could not remember; or because the decree was certain which he had determined concerning them; (see…”

“gain . . . time--literally, "buy." Compare Eph 5:16; Col 4:5, where the sense is somewhat different. the thing is gone from me--(See on Dan 2:5).”

“The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time - Margin, “buy.” The Chaldee word זבנין zâbenı̂yn (from זבן zeban) means, to get for oneself, buy, gain, procure. Greek, ἐξαγοράζετε exagorazete - “that ye redeem time;” and so the Vulgate - quod tempus redimitis. The idea is, that they saw that they could not comply with his requisition, and that their asking him Daniel 2:7 to state the dream was only a pretext for delay, in the hope that in the interval some device might be hit on by them to appease him, or to avert his threatened indignation. It would be natural to suppose that they might hope that on reflection he would become more calm, and that, although…”

“gain: Chal, buy, Eph 5:16; Col 4:5 Daniel 2:9”