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ἄγγελος

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greekNew TestamentNoun · masculine175 occurrences18 books171 verses

Definition

ἄγγελος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for מַלְאָךְ ;]

1. a messenger, one sent: Matthew 11:10, James 22:25.

2. As in LXX, in the special sense of angel, a spiritual, heavenly being, attendant upon God and employed as his messenger to men, to make known his purposes, as Luke 1:11, or to execute them, as Matthew 4:6. The ἄ. in Revelation 1:20-2:1, al., is variously understood as

(1) a messenger or delegate,

(2) a bishop or ruler,

(3) a guardian angel,

(4) the prevailing spirit of each church, i.e. the Church itself. (Cf. Swete, Ap)., in l.; DB, iv, 991; Thayer, see word; Cremer, 18; MM, VGT, see word)

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ἄγγελος:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

175 total
  1. Luke 24:23ἀγγέλων · of angels
    …but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
  2. John 1:51ἀγγέλους · angels
    Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
  3. John 12:29Ἄγγελος · an angel
    The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
  4. John 20:12ἀγγέλους · angels
    …and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.
  5. Acts 5:19Ἄγγελος · an angel
    But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
  6. Acts 6:15ἀγγέλου · of an angel
    All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
  7. Acts 7:30ἄγγελος · an angel
    After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
  8. Acts 7:35ἀγγέλου · [the] angel
    This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  9. Acts 7:38ἀγγέλου · angel
    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
  10. Acts 7:53ἀγγέλων · angels
    …you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
  11. Acts 8:26Ἄγγελος · an angel
    Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
  12. Acts 10:3ἄγγελον · of an angel
    One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
  13. Acts 10:7ἄγγελος · angel
    When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.
  14. Acts 10:22ἀγγέλου · angel
    “Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”
  15. Acts 11:13ἄγγελον · an angel
    He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
  16. Acts 12:7ἄγγελος · an angel
    Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
  17. Acts 12:8ἄγγελος · angel
    “Get dressed and put on your sandals,” said the angel. Peter did so, and the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
  18. Acts 12:9ἀγγέλου · angel
    So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.
  19. Acts 12:10ἄγγελος · angel
    They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.
  20. Acts 12:11ἄγγελον · angel
    Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
  21. Acts 12:15ἄγγελός · angel
    “You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
  22. Acts 12:23ἄγγελος · an angel
    Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  23. Acts 23:8ἄγγελον · angels
    For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.
  24. Acts 23:9ἄγγελος · an angel
    A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
  25. Acts 27:23ἄγγελος · an angel
    For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me
  26. Romans 8:38ἄγγελοι · angels
    For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
  27. 1 Corinthians 4:9ἀγγέλοις · to angels
    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
  28. 1 Corinthians 6:3ἀγγέλους · angels
    Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
  29. 1 Corinthians 11:10ἀγγέλους · angels
    For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
  30. 1 Corinthians 13:1ἀγγέλων · of angels
    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
  31. 2 Corinthians 11:14ἄγγελον · an angel
    And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
  32. 2 Corinthians 12:7ἄγγελος · a messenger
    …or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
  33. Galatians 1:8ἄγγελος · an angel
    But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse!
  34. Galatians 3:19ἀγγέλων · angels
    Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
  35. Galatians 4:14ἄγγελον · an angel
    And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
  36. Colossians 2:18ἀγγέλων · of angels
    Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
  37. 2 Thessalonians 1:7ἀγγέλων · angels
    …and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
  38. 1 Timothy 3:16ἀγγέλοις · by angels
    By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
  39. 1 Timothy 5:21ἀγγέλων · angels
    I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.
  40. Hebrews 1:4ἀγγέλων · angels
    So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.
  41. Hebrews 1:5ἀγγέλων · angels
    For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?
  42. Hebrews 1:6ἄγγελοι · angels
    And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”
  43. Hebrews 1:7ἀγγέλους · angels; ἀγγέλους · angels
    Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”
  44. Hebrews 1:13ἀγγέλων · angels
    Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
  45. Hebrews 2:2ἀγγέλων · angels
    For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
  46. Hebrews 2:5ἀγγέλοις · to angels
    For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
  47. Hebrews 2:7ἀγγέλους · [the] angels
    You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
  48. Hebrews 2:9ἀγγέλους · [the] angels
    But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
  49. Hebrews 2:16ἀγγέλων · [the] angels
    For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.