Bible Person
Meaning: long; great; tall · Male · 4 cross references
Arioch is the official in Daniel who oversees the execution order against Babylon's wise men and then brings Daniel before the king. He is a secondary court figure in one of Daniel's earliest crisis scenes. First appears in Dan 2:14.1
AI summary: Arioch matters because the cross references present him at the hinge between threatened judgment and Daniel's God-given intervention. He embodies the lethal seriousness of Nebuchadnezzar's decree, yet he also becomes the channel through which Daniel is brought into the king's presence. His role highlights how divine deliverance often works through court procedures and intermediaries. Taken together, the material presents Arioch as the royal official whose actions frame Daniel's rescue and rise.1
Central Figure
Arioch
Meaning: long; great; tall
Dan.
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.