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Strong's #5665 - עֲבֵד נְגוֹ

Transliteration

ʻĂbêd Nᵉgôwʼ

Phonetics

ab-ade' neg-o'

Origin

of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Abed-nego = “servant of Nebo”

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

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (14)

Daniel 14

NAS (14)

Daniel 14

HCS (14)

Daniel 14

BSB (14)

Daniel 14

ESV (14)

Daniel 14

WEB (14)

Daniel 14

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

עֲבֵד נְגוֺ proper name, masculine comrade of Daniel (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 2:49; Daniel 3:12 10t. 3, +עֲבֵד נְגוֺא Daniel 3:29; = עֲזַרְיָה Daniel 2:17.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עֲבֵד נְגוֹ (perhaps = עֲבֵד נְבוֹ “worshipper of Mercury;” see נְבוֹ ), [Abed-nego], Daniel 1:7, 2:49 3:12 and עֲבֵד נְגוֹא verse 29 Chald. pr.n., given in Babylon to Azariah, a companion of Daniel.

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List of Word Forms

נְג֑וֹ נְג֔וֹ נְג֔וֹא נְג֖וֹ נְג֛וֹ נגו נגוא nə·ḡō·w nə·ḡōw neGo nəḡōw