Strong's #4336: Meyshak (pronounced may-shak')
(Aramaic) of foreign origin and doubtful significance; Meshak, the Babylonian name of 4333:--Meshak.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ (Aramaic)
mêyshak
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 Lord
1a) original name ' Mishael'
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: of foreign origin and doubtful significance
Usage:
This word is used 14 times:
Daniel 2:49: "the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of"
Daniel 3:12: "of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king,"
Daniel 3:13: "commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these"
Daniel 3:14: "and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve"
Daniel 3:16: "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we"
Daniel 3:19: "was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat"
Daniel 3:20: "that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning"
Daniel 3:22: "slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego."
Daniel 3:23: "three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst"
Daniel 3:26: "and spoke, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high"
Daniel 3:26: "and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst"
Daniel 3:28: "be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel,"
Daniel 3:29: "against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces,"
Daniel 3:30: "the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon."
