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Lexicon :: Strong's G32 - angelos

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ἄγγελος
Transliteration
angelos (Key)
Pronunciation
ang'-el-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From aggello [probably derived from ἄγω (G71), cf ἀγέλη (G34)] (to bring tidings)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:74,12

Strong’s Definitions

ἄγγελος ággelos, ang'-el-os; from ἀγγέλλω aggéllō (probably derived from G71; compare G34) (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor:—angel, messenger.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 186x

The KJV translates Strong's G32 in the following manner: angel (179x), messenger (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 186x
The KJV translates Strong's G32 in the following manner: angel (179x), messenger (7x).
  1. a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄγγελος ággelos, ang'-el-os; from ἀγγέλλω aggéllō (probably derived from G71; compare G34) (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor:—angel, messenger.
STRONGS G32:
ἄγγελος, -ου, ,
1. a messenger, envoy, one who is sent: Matthew 11:10; Luke 7:24, 27; Luke 9:52; Mark 1:2; James 2:25. [From Homer down.]
2. In the Scriptures, both of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, one of that host of heavenly spirits that, according alike to Jewish and Christian opinion, wait upon the monarch of the universe, and are sent by him to earth, now to execute his purposes (Matthew 4:6, 11; Matthew 28:2; Mark 1:13; Luke 16:22; Luke 22:43 [L brackets WH reject the passage]; Acts 7:35; Acts 12:23; Galatians 3:19, cf. Hebrews 1:14), now to make them known to men (Luke 1:11, 26; Luke 2:9ff; Acts 10:3; Acts 27:23; Matthew 1:20; Matthew 2:13; Matthew 28:5; John 20:12f); hence, the frequent expressions ἄγγελος (angel, messenger of God, מַלְאָך) and ἄγγελοι κυρίου or ἄγγελοι τοῦ Θεοῦ.
They are subject not only to God but also to Christ (Hebrews 1:4ff; 1 Peter 3:22, cf. Ephesians 1:21; Galatians 4:14), who is described as hereafter to return to judgment surrounded by a multitude of them as servants and attendants: Matthew 13:41, 49; Matthew 16:27; Matthew 24:31; Matthew 25:31; 2 Thessalonians 1:7, cf. Jude 1:14.
Single angels have the charge of separate elements; as fire, Revelation 14:18; waters, Revelation 16:5, cf. Revelation 7:1; John 5:4 [R L]. Respecting the ἄγγελος τῆς ἀβύσσου, Revelation 9:11, see Ἀβαδδών,
3. Guardian angels of individuals are mentioned in Matthew 18:10; Acts 12:15. 'The angels of the churches' in Revelation 1:20; Revelation 2:1, 8, 12, 18; Revelation 3:1, 7, 14 are not their presbyters or bishops, but heavenly spirits who exercise such a superintendence and guardianship over them that whatever in their assemblies is worthy of praise or of censure is counted to the praise or the blame of their angels also, as though the latter infused their spirit into the assemblies; cf. DeWette, Düsterdieck [Alford] on Revelation 1:20, and Lücke, Einl. in d. Offenb. d. Johan. ii., p. 429f, edition 2; [Bp. Lightfoot on Philip., p. 199f]. διά τούς ἀγγέλους that she may show reverence for the angels, invisibly present in the religious assemblies of Christians, and not displease them, 1 Corinthians 11:10. ὤφθη ἀγγέλοις in 1 Timothy 3:16 is probably to be explained neither of angels to whom Christ exhibited himself in heaven, nor of demons triumphed over by him in the nether world, but of the apostles, his messengers, to whom he appeared after his resurrection. This appellation, which is certainly extraordinary, is easily understood from the nature of the hymn from which the passage ἐφανερώθη... ἐν δόξῃ seems to have been taken; cf. Winer's Grammar, 639f (594), [for other interpretations see Ellicott, at the passage]. In John 1:51 (52) angels are employed, by a beautiful image borrowed from Genesis 28:12, to represent the divine power that will aid Jesus in the discharge of his Messianic office, and the signal proofs to appear in his history of a divine superintendence. Certain of the angels have proved faithless to the trust committed to them by God, and have given themselves up to sin, Jude 1:6; 2 Peter 2:4 (Enoch c. vi. etc., cf. Genesis 6:2), and now obey the devil, Matthew 25:41; Revelation 12:7, cf. 1 Corinthians 6:3 [yet on this last passage cf. Meyer; he and others maintain that ἄγγελοι without an epithet or limitation never in the N. T. signifies other than good angels]. Hence, ἄγγελος Σατᾶν is tropically used in 2 Corinthians 12:7 to denote a grievous bodily malady sent by Satan.
See δαίμων; [Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word ἄγγελος; and for the literature on the whole subject B. D. American edition under the word Angels — and to the references there given add G. L. Hahn, Theol. des N. T., i., pp. 260-384; Delitzsch in Riehm under the word Engel; Kübel in Herzog edition 2, ibid.].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
6:2; 28:12
Matthew
1:20; 2:13; 4:6; 4:11; 11:10; 13:41; 13:49; 16:27; 18:10; 24:31; 25:31; 25:41; 28:2; 28:5
Mark
1:2; 1:13
Luke
1:11; 1:26; 2:9; 7:24; 7:27; 9:52; 16:22; 22:43
John
1:51; 5:4; 20:12
Acts
7:35; 10:3; 12:15; 12:23; 27:23
1 Corinthians
6:3; 11:10
2 Corinthians
12:7
Galatians
3:19; 4:14
Ephesians
1:21
2 Thessalonians
1:7
1 Timothy
3:16
Hebrews
1:4; 1:14
James
2:25
1 Peter
3:22
2 Peter
2:4
Jude
1:6; 1:14
Revelation
1:20; 1:20; 2:1; 2:8; 2:12; 2:18; 3:1; 3:7; 3:14; 7:1; 9:11; 12:7; 14:18; 16:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G32 matches the Greek ἄγγελος (angelos),
which occurs 21 times in 21 verses in 'Act' in the TR Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:19 - But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:15 - And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30 - “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord[fn] appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:35 - “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’[fn] is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:38 - “This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:53 - “who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:26 - Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:3 - About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:7 - And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on him continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:22 - And they said, “Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:13 - “And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Peter,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:7 - Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:8 - Then the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and tie on your sandals”; and so he did. And he said to him, “Put on your garment and follow me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:9 - So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:10 - When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:11 - And when Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:15 - But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, “It is his angel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:23 - Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:8 - For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection—and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:9 - Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees’ party arose and protested, saying, “We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:23 - “For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve,
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