shadrach

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shadrach - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Shadrach \Sha"drach\, n. (Metal.)
     A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed
     of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of
     the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery
     furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See --Dan. iii. 26, 27.)
     [1913 Webster]

shadrach - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Shadrach
  Aku's command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the
  Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon
  (Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to bow
  down before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up on the
  plains of Dura. Their conduct filled the king with the greatest
  fury, and he commanded them to be cast into the burning fiery
  furnace. Here, amid the fiery flames, they were miraculously
  preserved from harm. Over them the fire had no power, "neither
  was a hair of their head singed, neither had the smell of fire
  passed on them." Thus Nebuchadnezzar learned the greatness of
  the God of Israel. (See ABEDNEGO.)