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BELTESHAZZAR.—Nebuchadnezzar is said to have conferred this name on the youthful Daniel (Dan_1:7). The Babylonian form would be Balatsu-usur (“protect his life!”) or, according to Dan_4:8, Bel balatsu-usur. The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] and Theodotion employ Baltasar both for it and for Belshazzar (ch. 5); and pseudo-Epiphanius repeats a legend that Nebuchadnezzar wished to make the two men co-heirs.
J. Taylor.