אֲזַלʼăzal
go, go off
Pronunciation: az-al' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H236
Meanings
Pe`al
1. go, go off, go and say, go (and) put (Daniel 2:17; Daniel 6:19; Daniel 6:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Ezra 4:23 When this letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai, and their colleagues, they hurried to Jerusalem. Then, with a show of strength, they forced the Jews to stop building.
- Ezra 5:8 “The king should know that we went to the construction site of the Temple of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being rebuilt with specially prepared stones, and timber is being laid in its walls. The work is going forward with great energy and success.
- Ezra 5:15 The king instructed him to return the cups to their place in Jerusalem and to rebuild the Temple of God there on its original site.
- Daniel 2:17 Then Daniel went home and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah what had happened.
- Daniel 2:24 Then Daniel went in to see Arioch, whom the king had ordered to execute the wise men of Babylon. Daniel said to him, “Don’t kill the wise men. Take me to the king, and I will tell him the meaning of his dream.”
- Daniel 6:18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He refused his usual entertainment and couldn’t sleep at all that night.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).