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Lexicon :: Strong's H4397 - mal'āḵ

Aa
מַלְאָךְ
Transliteration
mal'āḵ
Pronunciation
mal-awk'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy
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TWOT Reference: 1068a

Strong’s Definitions

מֲלְאָךְ 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 214x

The KJV translates Strong's H4397 in the following manner: angel (111x), messenger (98x), ambassadors (4x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 214x
The KJV translates Strong's H4397 in the following manner: angel (111x), messenger (98x), ambassadors (4x), variant (1x).

  1. messenger, representative

    1. messenger

    2. angel

    3. the theophanic angel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֲלְאָךְ 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.
STRONGS H4397: Abbreviations
מַלְאָךְ 214 noun masculine messenger; — מ׳ Exodus 23:20 + 48 times; construct מַלְאַךְ Genesis 16:7 + 69 times; suffixes מַלְאָכִי Exodus 23:23 + 3 times; מַלְאָכוֺ Genesis 24:7, 40; plural מַלְאָכִים Genesis 32:4 [Genesis 32:3] + 63 times + מלאכים 2 Samuel 11:1 Kt (Qr מלכים); construct מַלְאֲכֵי Genesis 28:12 + 11 times; מַלְאָכֶיךָ Numbers 24:12; 2 Kings 19:23; מַלְאָכֵכֵה Nahum 2:14 error for מַלְאָכֵכִי = מַלְאָכַיְכִי Ges§ 91, (2) Anm. 2 or < for מַלְאָכֵךְ by dittograph from following הוֺי Köii. 1. 571). מַלְאָכָיו 2 Chronicles 36:15 + 8 times; —
1. messenger,
a. one sent with a message Genesis 32:4 [Genesis 32:3 + 8 times J E; Deuteronomy 2:26, (not in P); Judges 6:35 + 8 times; 1 Samuel 6:21 + 51 times Samuel Kings, 1 Chronicles 14:1; 1 Chronicles 19:2, 16; 2 Chronicles 18:12; 35:21; Nehemiah 6:3; Job 1:14; Proverbs 13:17; Proverbs 17:11; Isaiah 14:32; Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 30:4; Isaiah 37:9, 14; Jeremiah 27:3; Ezekiel 17:15; Ezekiel 23:16, 40; Ezekiel 30:9; Nahum 2:14; מלאכי שׁלום, messengers of peace Isaiah 33:7.
b. a prophet Isaiah 42:19; Isaiah 44:26; 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16; Haggai 1:13; the herald of the advent מלאכי Malachi 3:1.
c. priest Malachi 2:7, probably Ecclesiastes 5:5 [Ecclesiastes 5:6] (RV angel).
d. || מֵלִיץ Job 33:23, a messenger from God acting as an interpreter and declaring what is right (angel of RV too specific).
e. figurative רָעִים מ׳ messengers of evil Psalm 78:49; מות מ׳ messenger of death Proverbs 16:14; || רוחות winds his messengers Psalm 104:4.
2. angel, as messenger of God, מלאכים with God in theophanies Genesis 19:1, 15; Genesis 28:12; Genesis 32:2; [Genesis 32:1] (JE), praising him; Psalm 103:20; Psalm 148:2; in his sight not without error Job 4:18 charged with the care of the pious Psalm 91:11; elsewhere singular sent to a prophet 1 Kings 13:18; 1 Kings 19:5, 7; 2 Kings 1:3, 15; Zechariah 1:9 + 18 times in Zechariah 1-6; excellent, wise, powerful 1 Samuel 29:9; 2 Samuel 14:17, 20; 2 Samuel 19:28; Zechariah 12:8; encamping about the faithful Psalm 34:8; chasing his enemies Psalm 35:5; Psalm 35:6; destroying by judgment of Yahweh 2 Samuel 24:16, 17 = 1 Chronicles 21:12-30; 2 Kings 19:35 = Isaiah 37:36 2 Chronicles 32:21.
3. the theophanic angel ה֯א֠להים מ׳ in the story of E: Genesis 21:17; Genesis 31:11; Exodus 14:19, also in Judges 6:20; Judges 13:6, 9; יהוה מ׳ in the story of J: Genesis 16:7, 9, 10, 11; Genesis 22:11, 15; Exodus 3:2; Numbers 22:22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35 and in Judges 2:1; Judges 2:4; Judges 5:23; Judges 6:11; Judges 6:12; Judges 6:21 (twice in verse); Judges 6:22 (twice in verse); Judges 13:3, 13, 15, 16 (twice in verse); Judges 13:17, 18, 20 (twice in verse); Judges 13:21; הַמַּלְאָךְ Genesis 48:16 (E); מַלְאָךְ Exodus 23:20 (E), Exodus 33:2; Numbers 20:16 (JE), Hosea 12:5; מַלְאָכִי Exodus 23:23 (E), Exodus 32:34 (J); מַלְאָכוֺ Genesis 24:7, 40 (J), פניו מ׳ Malachi 3:1 (referring to the ancient מלאך); הכרית מ׳ Malachi 3:1 (referring to the advent of י׳ for judgment, see BrMP 473). The theophanic angel is not mentioned in D and P.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

16:7; 16:7; 16:9; 16:10; 16:11; 19:1; 19:15; 21:17; 22:11; 22:15; 24:7; 24:7; 24:40; 24:40; 28:12; 28:12; 31:11; 32:1; 32:3; 32:3; 48:16

Exodus

3:2; 14:19; 23:20; 23:20; 23:23; 23:23; 32:34; 33:2

Numbers

20:16; 22:22; 22:23; 22:24; 22:25; 22:26; 22:27; 22:31; 22:32; 22:34; 22:35; 24:12

Deuteronomy

2:26

Judges

2:1; 2:4; 5:23; 6:11; 6:12; 6:20; 6:21; 6:22; 6:35; 13:3; 13:6; 13:9; 13:13; 13:15; 13:16; 13:17; 13:18; 13:20; 13:21

1 Samuel

6:21; 29:9

2 Samuel

11:1; 14:17; 14:20; 19:28; 24:16; 24:17

1 Kings

13:18; 19:5; 19:7

2 Kings

1:3; 1:15; 19:23; 19:35

1 Chronicles

14:1; 19:2; 19:16; 21:12; 21:13; 21:14; 21:15; 21:16; 21:17; 21:18; 21:19; 21:20; 21:21; 21:22; 21:23; 21:24; 21:25; 21:26; 21:27; 21:28; 21:29; 21:30

2 Chronicles

18:12; 32:21; 35:21; 36:15; 36:15; 36:16

Nehemiah

6:3

Job

1:14; 4:18; 33:23

Psalms

34:8; 35:5; 35:6; 78:49; 91:11; 103:20; 104:4; 148:2

Proverbs

13:17; 16:14; 17:11

Ecclesiastes

5:6

Isaiah

14:32; 18:2; 30:4; 33:7; 37:9; 37:14; 37:36; 42:19; 44:26

Jeremiah

27:3

Ezekiel

17:15; 23:16; 23:40; 30:9

Hosea

12:5

Haggai

1:13

Zechariah

1:9; 12:8

Malachi

2:7; 3:1; 3:1; 3:1

H4397

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Strong's Number H4397 matches the Hebrew מַלְאָךְ (mal'āḵ),
which occurs 213 times in 196 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 16:7–Jdg 6:22)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 - And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:15 - And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:1 - And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2 - And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:20 - See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23 - And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - But now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them for their sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:14 - Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:21 - And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the road with his sword in his hand; and turning from the road, the ass went into the field; and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her back on to the road.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:24 - Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a narrow road through the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side and on that.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:25 - And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her more blows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31 - Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he went down on his face to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:32 - And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:35 - And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men; but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with the chiefs of Balak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:12 - Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:22 - So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:12 - And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

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