Lexical Definition

‎שַׁדְרַךְ‎ Shadrak (shad-rak') Shadrach ^N:N-M-P
probably of foreign origin

Shadrach.

• § Shadrach = "royal" or "the great scribe"
• Shadrak, the Babylonian name of one of Daniel's companions

1) the godly friend of Daniel whom Nebuchadnezzar renamed Shadrach; 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, 'Hananiah' (חֲנַנְיָה)

Extended Information

Hebrew of: חֲנַנְיָה

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Dan.1.6 also called Shadrach at Dan.1.7 2.49 3.12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30
• Another name of cha.nan.yah (‎ח‎ֲ‎נ‎ַ‎נ‎ְ‎י‎ָ֫‎הו‎ּ "Hananiah" חֲנַנְיָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Aramaic form: שַׁדְרַךְ
‎שַׁדְרַךְ‎ proper name, masculine Babylonian name given to ‎חֲנַנְיָה‎, one of Daniel's comrades Dan 1:7 (form and meaning dubious; Dl (compare COT Dr) Šudur-Aku, command of Aku; Jen^{ThLZ 1895, 328} thinks Persian [*Khšatraka]; Köhler^{ZA iv (1889), 50} conjectures ‎מרדך‎, so Wkl^{Altor. Forsch. iii. 47. 57} Zim^{KAT 3. 396}).

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