Aramaic word · H5839
עֲזַרְיָה
va'azaryah
Azariah
A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?
Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.
What it means
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Dan.1.6; also called Abednego at Dan.2.49; 3.12,13,14,16,19,20,22,23,26,28,29,30;
Aramaic of a.zar.yah (עֲזַרְיָה "Azariah" H5838Z)
§ Azariah = "Jehovah has helped"
1) 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
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Daniel · 1
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Daniel 2:17 וַעֲזַרְיָ֛ה and Azariah
Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
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