Abednego

In Bible versions:

Abednego: NET NIV NRSV
Abed-Nego: AVS TEV
Abed-nego: NASB

a man of Judah who served Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon with Daniel

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servant of light; shining

Hebrew

Strongs #05664: wgn dbe `Abed N@gow

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
1a) also, 'Azariah' (05838
or 05839)

5664 `Abed Ngow ab-ade' neg-o'

the same as 5665; Abed-Nego, the Babylonian name of one of
Daniel's companions:-Abed-nego.
see HEBREW for 05665

Strongs #05665: wgn dbe `Abed N@gow' (Aramaic)

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
1a) also, 'Azariah' (05838
or 05839)

5665 `Abed Ngow' ab-ade' neg-o'

(Aramaic) of foreign origin; Abed-Nego, the name of
Azariah:-Abed-nego.

Abednego [EBD]

servant of Nego=Nebo, the Chaldee name given to Azariah, one of Daniel's three companions (Dan. 2:49). With Shadrach and Meshach, he was delivered from the burning fiery furnace (3:12-30).

Abed-nego [NAVE]

ABED-NEGO, called also Azariah, a Jewish captive in Babylon, Dan. 1:6-20; 2:17, 49; 3:12-30; Heb. 11:34.

ABEDNEGO [SMITH]

(i.e. servant of Nego, perhaps the same as Nebo), the Chaldean name given to Azariah, one of the three friends of Daniel, miraculously save from the fiery furnace. Dan. 3. (B.C. about 600.)

ABED-NEGO [ISBE]

ABED-NEGO - a-bed'-ne-go (Hebrew and Aramaic `abhedh neghgo; Dan 3:29, `abhedh negho'): According to many, the nego is an intentional corruption of Nebo, the name of a Babylonian god, arising from the desire of the Hebrew scribes to avoid the giving of a heathen name to a hero of their faith. The name, according to this view, would mean "servant of Nebo." Inasmuch as `abhedh is a translation of the Babylonian `arad, it seems ore probable that nego also must be a translation of some Babylonian word. The goddess Ishtar is by the Babylonians called "the morning star" and "the perfect light" (nigittu gitmaltu). The morning star is called by the Arameans nogah, "the shining one," a word derived from the root negah, the equivalent of the Babylonian nagu, "to shine." Abed-nego, according to this interpretation, would be the translation of Arad-Ishtar, a not uncommon name among the Assyrians and Babylonians. Canon Johns gives this as the name of more than thirty Assyrians, who are mentioned on the tablets cited by him in Vol. III of his great work entitled Assyrian Deeds and Documents. It means "servant of Ishtar."

Abed-nego was one of the three companions of Daniel, and was the name imposed upon the Hebrew Azariah by Nebuchadnezzar (Dan 1:7). Having refused, along with his friends, to eat the provisions of the king's table, he was fed and flourished upon pulse and water. Having successfully passed his examinations and escaped the death with which the wise men of Babylon were threatened, he was appointed at the request of Daniel along with his companions over the affairs of the province of Babylon (Dan 2). Having refused to bow down to the image which Nebuehadnezzar had set up, he was cast into the burning fiery furnace, and after his triumphant delivery he was caused by the king to prosper in the province of Babylon (Dan 3). The three friends are referred to by name in 1 Macc 2:59, and by implication in Heb 11:33,34.

R. Dick Wilson