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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - עֲבֵד נְגֹוא

עֲבֵד נְגֹוא

H5665

Transliteration: ʻĂbêd Nᵉgôwʼ

Pronunciation: ab-ade' neg-o'

Definition: Abed-nego


Original: עבד נגוא

Transliteration: ‛ăbêd negô'

Phonetic: ab-ade' neg-o'

BDB Definition:

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

Origin: of foreign origin

TWOT entry: None

Part(s) of speech: Proper Name Masculine


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