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מֲלְאָךְ (H4397)

mălʼâk

mal-awk'

from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher); ambassador, angel, king, messenger.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

מַלְאָךְ 214 n.m. messenger
1 messenger
2 angel, as messenger of God
3 the theophanic angel

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


197 occurrences

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  • Psalms 91:11
    For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
  • Psalms 103:20
    Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
  • Psalms 104:4
    Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
  • Psalms 148:2
    Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
  • Proverbs 13:17
    A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
  • Proverbs 16:14
    The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
  • Proverbs 17:11
    An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
  • Ecclesiastes 5:6
    Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
  • Isaiah 14:32
    What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
  • Isaiah 18:2
    That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!