Shadrach (Hastings' Dictionary)

The name given to Hananiah, one of Daniel's companions, by the prince of the eunuchs, Dn 1'. It is related in Dn 3 how Shadrach, along with Meshach (Mishael) and Abed-nego (Azariah), all of whom had been advanced to high offices (2^"), resisted the command to pay homage to Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, how all three were in consequence cast into a tiery furnace, and how they were miraculously delivered. See Hananiah, No. 2, and Three Children (Song of the).

The etymoloCT of the name Shadrach is un- certain. Frd. IJelitzsch (Lib. Dan. xii.) suggests that it is a variation of the Bab. Siidur-Al;u, ' command of the moon-god,' comparing the Assyr. TSm-ilu = ':K-c]K, and tlie Heb. '■incit. This view- is pronounced by Sehrader (KAT' 429 [COT ii. 125]) to have 'considerable probability.' J. A. Selbie. SHAGE (k;?» ; B SuXd, A Soy.))— The father of Jonathan, one of David's heroes, 1 Ch 11". See Aqee and Shammah, No. 3.

SHAHARAIM (D-Jjjs ; B Zaap^\, A 2aapi),u).— A Benjamite who is said to have begotten chOdren in the ' field of Moab ' after he had sent away two wives, Hushira and Baara, 1 Ch 8« (KVm). The passage is obscare. SHAHAZUMAH (.ip'smj Kethibh; AV Shaha- zimah, after Kerg nc'yqs*; B XaXel/j. kot4 ed\a(r<ra.u, A Soffeiuafl, Sehesima). — A town allotted to Issacliar, which was apparently between Mt. Talxir and the Jordan (Joa 19'^). Its site was unknown to Eusebius and Jerome (Onom. s.

Zaci/id, Sasima), and it has not yet been identified. C. W. Wilson. SHALEM {ahv ; f/s 2aXi)/i ; in Salem).— Accoid- ing to AV (cf. Luther's translation), which followB tlie LXX, the Pesh., and the Vulg., 'Shalem' (Gn 33") is a proper name, and considered to be a town near Shechem. Eusebius and Jerome (Onom.) believed Shalem and Shechem to be the same place. But if Shalem was a town, it must have been Sitlim, 4 mUes east of Ndblus (Shechem). In Gn 28^ c^?-?

bl-slullem is translated 'in peace,' and in Gn 33"* we should probably translate ' in peace to the city of Shechem,' as in KV which follows the Targums of Onkelos and pseudo-Jonathan, the Samaritan Codex, the Arabic Version, and the great Jewish and other commentators of modem times. See Dillm. ad loc. C. W. Wilson.