Lexicon archaggelos: a chief angel, i.e. archangel Original Word: ἀρχάγγελος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: archaggelos Phonetic Spelling: (ar-khang'-el-os) Short Definition: a ruler of angels, a superior angel, an archangel Definition: a ruler of angels, a superior angel, an archangel. HELPS word-Studies 743 arxággelos (from 758 /árxōn, "of the first order, chief" and 32 /ággelos, "angel") – an archangel; an angel of the highest rank (see Dan 10:13, 12:1; see also Lk 1:19; Rev 8:2, 12:7); "a ruler of angels, a superior angel, an archangel" (Souter). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom archó and aggelosDefinitiona chief angel, i.e. archangel NASB Translationarchangel (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 743: ἀρχάγγελοςἀρχάγγελος, ἀρχαγγέλου, ὁ (from ἀρχι, which see, and ἄγγελος), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word, archangel, i. e. chief of the angels (Hebrew שַׂר chief, prince, Daniel 10:20; Daniel 12:1), or one of the princes and leaders of the angels ( הָרִאשֹׁנִים הַשָּׂרִים, Daniel 10:13): 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 1:9. For the Jews after the exile distinguished several orders of angels, and some (as the author of the Book of Enoch, 9:1ff; cf. Dillmann at the passage, p. 97f) reckoned four angels (answering to the four sides of the throne of God) of the highest rank; but others, and apparently the majority (Tobit 12:15, where cf. Fritzsche; Revelation 8:2), reckoned seven (after the pattern of the seven Amshaspands, the high est spirits in the religion of Zoroaster). See under the words, Γαβριήλ and Μιχαήλ. |
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