Meshach
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From Biblical Hebrew מישך (myšk /mēšak/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mayšáh (“sheep, ram”) with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.
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Meshach
- (biblical) Mishael, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.
- Synonym: Mishael
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:23:
- And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
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one of the captives in the Book of Daniel
given name
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- Hutter, Manfred (2015) “MYŠK”, in Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band VII, Faszikel 2) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 48, page 56