Angel
מַלְאַךְStrong’s H4398malakh (mal-akh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Malakh is the Aramaic word usually translated “angel his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.”
Meaning
- Angel
How it's translated
- angel his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
מַלְאַךְ malakh · angel
angel Aramaic of ma.le.akh (מַלְאָךְ ": messenger" H4397)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “angel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AN'GEL, noun
Usually pronounced angel but most anomalously. [Latin angelus; Gr. a messenger, to tell or announce.]
- Literally, a messenger; one employed to communicate news or information from one person to another at a distance.
- A spirit, or a spiritual intelligent being employed by God to communicate his will to man. Hebrews 1:4
- In a bad sense, an evil spirit; as, the angel of the bottomless pit. 1 Corinthians 6:3Revelation 9:1
- Christ, the mediator and head of the church. Revelation 10:1
All definitions and other forms of “angel”
- A minister of the gospel, who is an embassador of God.
- Any being whom God employs to execute his judgments.
- In the style of love, a very beautiful person.
AN'GEL, noun
A fish found on the coast of Carolina, of the thoracie order and genus Chaetodon. It has a small projecting mouth; the lamens above the gills are armed with cerulean spines; the body, a foot in length, appears as if cut off, and waved, and covered with large green scales.
AN'GEL, noun
A gold coin formerly current in England, bearing the figure of an angel Skinner says, this device was impressed upon it in allusion to an observation of Pope Gregory the Great, who, seeing some beautiful English youths, in the market at Rome, asked who they were; being told they were Angli, English, he replied, they ought rather to be called angeli, angels. This coin had different values under different princes; but is now an imaginary sum or money of account, implying ten shillings sterling.
AN'GEL, adjective
Resembling angels; angelic; as, angel whiteness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.