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Strong's #7714 - שַׁדְרַךְ
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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
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שׁדשׁ (√of following; Sabean סדתֿ, סתֿ, six SabDenkm90 Hom Chrest. 47. 124; Arabic 
sixth (assimilation of last consonant), 
, 
six; Ethiopic 
six; Assyrian sudušu ( s!) six-fold, seššu, sixth; compare also Aramaic שֵׁית, שִׁתָּא, 
, 
six, Nabataean שת, Palmyrene שתא Ldzb383 SAC118).
שַׁדְרַךְ13 proper name, masculine (compare Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 2:49; Daniel 3:12 11t. 3.
שַׁדְרַךְ [Shadrach], pr.n. Ch. given to Hananiah, a companion of Daniel, in the court of Babylon (according to Lorsbach شادراك little friend of of the king; according to Bohlen شادراه rejoicing in the way: and this latter explanation is the better), Daniel 1:7, 2:49 3:12.
