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Lexicon :: Strong's H4397 - mal'āḵ

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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 (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

5:5

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 2 / 4 (Jdg 6:35–2Sa 24:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:35 - And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly,[fn] saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up[fn] the city against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:9 - And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:13 - And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:15 - Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16 - And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:17 - And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:18 - And the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:20 - And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:21 - The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:21 - So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4 - When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:19 - Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 - Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:14 - And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:15 - Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:16 - And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:21 - When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:27 - a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:9 - And Achish answered David and said, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:12 - And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,[fn] saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:14 - Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - When Joab came out from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:4 - So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:19 - And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:23 - The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

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