Strong's H4335 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מֵישַׁךְ (Mêyshak)

Pronunciation: may-shak'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Meshach = "guest of a king"

Derivation: borrowed from מֵישַׁךְ (Mêyshak) [H4336];

Definition: Meshak, an Israelite

KJV Renderings: Meshak.

Senses

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
1. original name 'Mishael'

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.