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This article is about the religious figure called Daniel. For the book in the Hebrew Bible, see Book of Daniel. For other uses, see Daniel (disambiguation).

"Danyal" redirects here. For places in Iran, see Danyal, Iran.

Daniel
Daniel's Answer to the King by Briton Rivière
Prophet
Born	7th Century B.C.
Died	6th Century B.C. Babylon (?)
Honored in	Christianity Mormonism Islam[1]
Major shrine	Tomb of Daniel, Susa, Iran
Feast	July 21 - Roman Catholicism December 17 - Greek Orthodoxy
Attributes	Often depicted in the den of the lions

Daniel (Hebrew: דָּנִיֵּאל, Modern Daniyyel Tiberian Dāniyyêl ; Arabic: دانيال, meaning in Hebrew "God is my Judge") is the protagonist in the Book of Daniel of the Hebrew Bible. In the narrative, when Daniel was a young man, he was taken into Babylonian captivity where he was educated in Chaldean thought. However, he never converted to Neo-Babylonian ways. Through "divine wisdom" from his God, Yahweh, he interpreted dreams and visions of kings, thus becoming a prominent figure in the court of Babylon. Eventually, he had apocalyptic visions of his own that have been interpreted as the Four monarchies. Some of the most famous accounts of Daniel are: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, The writing on the wall and Daniel in the lions' den.