(see Form). They are not distinctively priestly and the four young men have no specifically priestly traits;67 the portrayal in vv. 3–5 is royal. Each name lacks a patronymic (like the names in Neh 8 and 10) and each is theophoric: Daniyye’l, “God is my judge”; Ḥananyah, “Yah has been gracious”; Miša’el, “Who is what God is?”; ‘Azaryah, “Yah has helped.” Giving (new) names as a sign of (new) ownership and thus (new) destiny68 was common court practice: cf. Joseph/Zaphnat-paneah, Eliakim/Jehoiakim,