ʻĂbêd Nᵉgôwʼ — H5665

Definition

masculine proper noun

Abed-Nego, the name of Azariah

1. Abed-nego = "servant of Nebo"
2. 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
1. also, 'Azariah' ( H05838 or H05839)

Usually translated as

Abed-nego

Origin

(Aramaic) of foreign origin

Occurrences

ʻĂbêd Nᵉgôwʼ occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Daniel (13)

• Daniel 2:49 — Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
• Daniel 3:12 — There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד); these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
• Daniel 3:13 — Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד). Then they brought these men before the king.
• Daniel 3:14 — Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
• Daniel 3:16 — Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
• Daniel 3:19 — Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד): therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
• Daniel 3:20 — And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
• Daniel 3:22 — Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד).
• Daniel 3:23 — And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
• Daniel 3:26 — Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵד), ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
• Daniel 3:26 — Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (נְג֛וֹ), came forth of the midst of the fire.
• Daniel 3:28 — Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Daniel 3:29 — Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֣ד), shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
• Daniel 3:30 — Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (וַעֲבֵ֥ד), in the province of Babylon.