Mîyshâʼêl — H4333

Definition

masculine proper noun

Mishael, an Israelite

1. Mishael = "who is what God is"
2. 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

Usually translated as

Mishael

Origin

(Aramaic) corresponding to H4332

• Mîyshâʼêl (H4332)

Occurrences

Mîyshâʼêl occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Daniel (1)

• Daniel 2:17 — Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael (מִֽישָׁאֵ֧ל), and Azariah, his companions: