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HebrewH4336Proper Noun (Masculine)

מֵישַׁךְ

me.shakh

13Occurrences
H4336Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Meshak, the Babylonian

(Aramaic) of foreign origin and doubtful significance; name of H4333 (מִישָׁאֵל)

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at ; also called Meshach at ; Aramaic of mi.sha.el (*מִישָׁאֵל *"Mishael" H4332I) § Meshach = "guest of the 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 13 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Daniel
13

Key Passages

Daniel 2:49BSB

And at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to manage the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the king’s court.

Daniel 3:13BSB

Then Nebuchadnezzar, furious with rage, summoned Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king,

Daniel 3:16BSB

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Daniel 3:20BSB

and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.

Daniel 3:23BSB

And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.

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