עֲבֵד נְגוֹ
Abed-nego
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Abed-nego’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5664 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
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At its core, עבד נגו (ʻĂbêd Nᵉgôw) means “Abed-nego.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Daniel 1:7. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5664 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Abednego 1×
- American Standard Version: Abed-nego 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Abednego 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Abednego 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5664 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5664 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5664 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5664 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Abed-nego = "servant of Nebo"
- the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Abednego…
Word origin
n.pr.m. (servant of (God) Nebo, נְגוֹ being corrupt (intent. or unintent.) for נבוֹ (q.v.), COT Dn 1:7 Bev Dn 1:7);—Babylonian name of Azariah, one of the three companions of Daniel Dn 1:7 (v. also Biblical Aramaic); 𝔊 Theod Αβδεναγω.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עבד נגוא (ʻĂbêd Nᵉgôwʼ) (H5665) — Abed-nego.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H5664 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְגֽוֹ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 1:7 | 1 |
| עֲבֵ֥ד | Noun, Proper | Daniel 1:7 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Abed-nego). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(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.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
servant of light; shining
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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