Hebrew word · H7714

שַׁדְרַךְ

shadrakh

Shadrach

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

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" H2608T)

§ Shadrach = "royal" or "the great scribe"

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' (H2608L)

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

  1. Daniel 1:7 שַׁדְרַ֔ךְ Shadrach

    The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

    Here: A foreign name whose meaning is not known for certain. The proposals include an Akkadian phrase meaning "command of Aku" (an uncertain moon-god name), a Persian word, and a deliberately garbled form of "Marduk".

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.