Lexical Summary archangelos: a chief angel, archangel Original Word: ἀρχάγγελοςTransliteration: archangelos Phonetic Spelling: (ar-khang'-el-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a chief angel, archangel Meaning: a chief angel, archangel Strong's Concordance archangel. From archo and aggelos; a chief angel -- archangel. see GREEK archo see GREEK aggelos Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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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