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shadrach

shadrach


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shadrach  \Sha"drach\,  n.  (Metal.) 
  A  mass  of  iron  on  which  the  operation  of  smelting  has  failed 
  of  its  intended  effect;  --  so  called  from  Shadrach,  one  of 
  the  three  Hebrews  who  came  forth  unharmed  from  the  fiery 
  furnace  of  Nebuchadnezzar.  (See  --Dan.  iii.  26,  27.) 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Shadrach 
  Aku's  command,  the  Chaldean  name  given  to  Hananiah,  one  of  the 
  Hebrew  youths  whom  Nebuchadnezzar  carried  captive  to  Babylon 
  (Dan.  1:6,  7;  3:12-30).  He  and  his  two  companions  refused  to  bow 
  down  before  the  image  which  Nebuchadnezzar  had  set  up  on  the 
  plains  of  Dura.  Their  conduct  filled  the  king  with  the  greatest 
  fury,  and  he  commanded  them  to  be  cast  into  the  burning  fiery 
  furnace.  Here  amid  the  fiery  flames,  they  were  miraculously 
  preserved  from  harm.  Over  them  the  fire  had  no  power,  "neither 
  was  a  hair  of  their  head  singed,  neither  had  the  smell  of  fire 
  passed  on  them."  Thus  Nebuchadnezzar  learned  the  greatness  of 
  the  God  of  Israel.  (See  {ABEDNEGO}.) 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Shadrach,  tender,  nipple