HebrewH4335Proper Noun (Masculine)
מֵישַׁךְ
me.shakh
“Meshach”
1Occurrences
H4335Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Meshak, an Israelite
borrowed from H4336 (מֵישַׁךְ);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at ; also called Meshach at ; Another name of mi.sha.el (*מִישָׁאֵל *"Mishael" H4332I) § Meshach = "guest of a king" 1) the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Meshach; 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) original name 'Mishael'
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
N:N-M-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
מֵישַׁךְ 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.