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# מֵישַׁךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4335

**Meshak** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Meshak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4335/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵישַׁךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4335/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (according to DlBaer, Dan. xi for Mîsha-aku ‘who is what Aku (the moon-god) is?’ cf. מִישָׁאֵל, p. 567);—the new (Bab.) name given to Mishael, Dn 1:7 (+ Aramaic 2:49 and c. 3).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Meshach (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.7/#tree)

וַיָּ֧שֶׂם לָהֶ֛ם שַׂ֥ר הַסָּרִיסִ֖ים שֵׁמ֑וֹת וַיָּ֨שֶׂם לְדָֽנִיֵּ֜אל בֵּ֣לְטְשַׁאצַּ֗ר וְלַֽחֲנַנְיָה֙ שַׁדְרַ֔ךְ וּלְמִֽישָׁאֵ֣ל מֵישַׁ֔ךְ וְלַעֲזַרְיָ֖ה עֲבֵ֥ד נְגֽוֹ עֲבֵ֥ד נְגֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.assigned to them the.chief of the.officials names and he.assigned to Daniel Belteshazzar and to Hananiah Shadrach and to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abednego Abednego

*JPS 1917:* And the chief of the officers gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4335/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).