H5664

עֲבֵד נְגוֹ

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Abednego

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Dan.1.6; also called Abednego at Dan.2.49; 3.12,13,14,16,19,20,22,23,26,28,29,30; Another name of a.zar.yah (עֲזַרְיָה "Azariah" H5838Z) § Abed-nego = "servant of Nebo" 1) the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Abednego; 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) also, 'Azariah' (H5838 or H5839)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

עֲבֵד נְגוֺ proper name, masculine (servant of (God) Nebo, נְגוֺ being corrupt (intentional or unintentional) for נבוֺ (q. v.) COTDan 1:7 BevDan 1:7); — Babylonian name of Azariah, one of the three companions of Daniel Dan 1:7 (see also Biblical Aramaic); ᵐ5 Theod Αβδεναγω.



עֲבֵד נְגוֺ proper name, masculine comrade of Daniel (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Dan 2:49; Dan 3:12 + 10 t. 3, +עֲבֵד נְגוֺא Dan 3:29 = עֲזַרְיָה Dan 2:17.


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