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HebrewH4332Proper Noun (Masculine)

מִישָׁאֵל

mi.sha.el

7Occurrences
H4332Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Mishael, the name of three Israelites

from H4310 (מִי) and H410 (אֵל) with the abbreviated form insep. relatively (see H834 (אֲשֶׁר)) interposed; who (is) what God (is) ?;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Uzziel (H5816); brother of: Elizaphan (H0469), Sithri (H5644), Micah (H4318J) and Isshiah (H3449I) § Mishael = "who is what God is" 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 son of Uzziel and a cousin of Moses and ) one of those who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מִישָׁאֵל appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Daniel
4
Exodus
1
Leviticus
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

Daniel 1:6BSB

Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

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.

Daniel 1:11BSB

Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Daniel 1:19BSB

And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king’s service.

Exodus 6:22BSB

The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.