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Strong's #4332 - מִישָׁאֵל
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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
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1 a cousin of Moses Exodus 6:22; Leviticus 10:4 (P).
2 one of Daniel's companions Daniel 1:5,7,11,19 + Daniel 2:17 (Aramaic), elsewhere in with 2-3called מֵישַׁךְ ( Daniel 1:7).
3 Nehemiah 8:4.
מִישָׁאֵל proper name, masculine (= Biblical Hebrew id.,
2, below מִי); — Daniel 2..:17.
מִישָׁאֵל (“who (is) that which God is?” from מִי, שַׁ· and אֵל, compare מִיכָאֵל), pr.n. m.
(1) Exodus 6:22 Levit. 10:4.
(2) one of the companions of Daniel, Daniel 1:6, 2:17 afterwards called מֵישַׁךְ.
(3) Nehemiah 8:4.
