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ABEDNEGO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Biblical

Other Scripts: עֲבֵד־נְגוֹ (Hebrew)

Pronounced: ə-BED-ni-go (English)   [key]

Means "servant of Nebo" in Babylonian, Nebo being the Babylonian god of wisdom. In the Old Testament Abednego was the Babylonian name given to Azariah, one of the three men cast into a blazing furnace but saved from harm by God.
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