מֲלְאָךְmălʼâk

messenger

Pronunciation: mal-awk' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4397

Meanings

1. messenger

c. angel (Malachi 2:7; Ecclesiastes 5:5)

d. angel (Job 33:23)

e. messengers of evil, messenger of death (Psalms 78:49; Proverbs 16:14; Psalms 104:4)

2. angel, as messenger of God (Genesis 19:1; Genesis 19:15; Genesis 28:12)

3. the theophanic angel (Genesis 21:17; Genesis 31:11; Exodus 14:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 214 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 16:7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.
  • Genesis 16:9 The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.”
  • Genesis 16:10 Then he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.”
  • Genesis 16:11 And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the Lord has heard your cry of distress.
  • Genesis 19:1 That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
  • Genesis 19:15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
See every passage

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).