"and Azariah ( "Ǎzaryāh"), "Yah has helped", but by the king’s decree they were assigned Chaldean names, so that Hananiah became Shadrach (שַׁדְרַך "Šaḏraḵ"), Mishael became Meshach (מֵישַׁ֖ךְ "Mêšaḵ") and Azariah became Abednego (עֲבֵ֣דנְג֑וֹ "‘Ǎḇêḏ-Nəḡō").The Chaldean names are related to the Hebrew ones, with the names El and Yah replaced by Babylonian theonyms