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Meshach

also called Mishael

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

One of the three Hebrew youths who were trained with Daniel in Babylon (Dan. 1:11, 19), and promoted to the rank of Magi. He and his companions were afterwards cast into the burning fiery furnace for refusing to worship the idol the king had set up, from which they were miraculously delivered (3:13-30). His Chaldean name was Meshach (q.v.).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 18 verses

Daniel
1:6, 1:7, 1:11, 1:19, 2:17, 2:49, 3:12, 3:13, 3:14, 3:16, 3:19, 3:20, 3:22, 3:23, 3:26, 3:28, 3:29, 3:30

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.