Miysha'el

mee-shaw-ale'
Parts of Speech Proper Name Masculine

Miysha'el Definition

Mishael = "who is what God is"
  1. the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Meshach; 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
  2. a son of Uzziel and a cousin of Moses and Aaron
  3. one of those who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
laXym
Origin
from (04310) and (0410) with the abbrev. insep. relatively [see (0834)] interposed
Strong's Number
04332
TDNT Entry
None

KJV Word Usage

Mishael
7
Total
7

KJV Verse Count

1
1
1
4
Total
7
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The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Miysha'el". "The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .