Strongs Number: H4335
- Hebrew Word
- מֵישַׁךְ
- Transliteration
- Mêyshak
- Phonetic
- may-shak'
- Part of Speech
- Proper Name Masculine
- Strongs Definition
-
{Meshak} an Israelite
- BDB Definition
-
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 Lord
a. original name 'Mishael'
- Origin
- Borrowed from H4336
- Bible Usage
- Meshak.