HebrewH5664Proper Noun (Masculine)
עֲבֵד נְגוֹ
a.ved ne.go
“Abednego”
1Occurrences
H5664Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Abed-Nego, the Babylonian name of one of Daniel's companions
the same as H5665 (עֲבֵד נְגוֹא);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at ; also called Abednego at ; Another name of a.zar.yah (*עֲזַרְיָה *"Azariah" H5838Z) § Abed-nego = "servant of Nebo" 1) the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Abednego; one of the three friends who with Daniel refused to make themselves unclean by eating food from the king's table which went against the dietary laws which God had given the Jews; also one of the three who were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to a graven image of Nebuchadnezzar and who were saved by the angel of the a) also, 'Azariah' (H5838 or H5839)
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
N:N-M-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
עֲבֵד נְגוֹ appears 1 time in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Daniel
1
Key Passages
Daniel 1:7BSB
The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.