(royal, or the great scribe) the Hebrew, or rather Chaldee, name of Hananiah. The history of Shadrach or Hananiah as told in Daniel 1-3 is well known. After their deliverance from the furnace, we hear no more of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, except in Hebrews 11:33-34 but there are repeated allusions to them in the later apocryphal books, and the martyrs of the Maccabaean period seem to have been much encouraged by their example.