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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 הוֺיii. 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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 3 / 4 (1Ki 13:18–Psa 91:11)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:18 - And he said to him, “I also am a prophet like you, and an angel H4397 spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he dealt falsely with him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger H4397 to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your [fn]life as the [fn]life of one of them by about this time tomorrow.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:5 - Then he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, there was an angel H4397 touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - And the angel H4397 of Yahweh came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2 - Then he sent messengers H4397 to the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Thus says Ben-hadad,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5 - Then the messengers H4397 returned and said, “Thus says [fn]Ben-hadad, ‘Surely, I sent to you saying, “You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children,”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - So he said to the messengers H4397 of Ben-hadad, “Say to my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” And the messengers H4397 departed and brought him word again.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:13 -

Now the messenger H4397 who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, “Behold now, the words of the prophets, as if from one mouth, are good towards the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - And Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber, which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers H4397 and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will live from this sickness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel H4397 of [fn]Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers H4397 of the king of Samaria and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:5 -

So the messengers H4397 returned to him, and he said to them, “[fn]Why have you returned?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - Then the angel H4397 of Yahweh spoke to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - Then he spoke to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have sent messengers H4397 to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?—therefore [fn]you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - And Elisha sent a messenger H4397 to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 -

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger H4397 came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger H4397 comes, shut the door and [fn]hold the door shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:33 - While he was still speaking with them, behold, the messenger H4397 came down to him and he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:15 - Then they went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers H4397 returned and told the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - So a horseman went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” And the watchman declared saying, “The messenger H4397 came to them, but he did not return.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:8 - Then the messenger H4397 came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” So he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:8 -

Then Amaziah sent messengers H4397 to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face each other.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:7 -

So Ahaz sent messengers H4397 to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son; come up and save me from the [fn]hand of the king of Aram and from the [fn]hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers H4397 to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of [fn]Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers H4397 again to Hezekiah saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:14 -

Then Hezekiah took the [fn]letter from the hand of the messengers H4397 and read it, and he went up to the house of Yahweh and [fn]spread it out before Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 -

‘Through your messengers H4397 you have [fn]reproached the Lord,

And you have said, “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I [fn]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I [fn]entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 -

Now it happened that night, that the angel H4397 of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And the [fn]men arose early in the morning, and behold, all of [fn]them were dead bodies.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:1 -

Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers H4397 to David with cedar trees and craftsmen of walls and craftsmen of wood, to build a house for him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - So David said, “I will show lovingkindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed lovingkindness to me.” So David sent messengers H4397 to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:16 -

Then the Arameans saw that they had been [fn]defeated by Israel. So they sent messengers H4397 and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the [fn]River, and Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer [fn]led them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your adversaries, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel H4397 of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ So now, see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel H4397 to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and [fn]relented concerning the calamity, and said to the destroying angel H4397, “It is enough! Now relax your hand.” And the angel H4397 of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of [fn]Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - Then David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel H4397 of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 -

Then the angel H4397 of Yahweh said to Gad to say to David, that David should go up and erect an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:20 - Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel H4397, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:27 - Then Yahweh spoke to the angel H4397, and he returned his sword to its sheath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:30 - But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was terrified by the sword of the angel H4397 of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:12 -

Now the messenger H4397 who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets, as if from one mouth, are good to the king. So please let your word be like one of them and speak that which is good.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And Yahweh sent an angel H4397 who wiped out every mighty man of valor, ruler, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned [fn]in shame to his own land. And he entered the house of his god, and some of [fn]his own children caused him to fall there by the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - But [fn]Neco sent messengers H4397 to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has said for me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not bring you to ruin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 -

And Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent word to them [fn]again and again by the hand of His messengers H4397, because He had compassion on His people and on His habitation;

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:16 - but they continually mocked the messengers H4397 of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against His people, until there was no remedy.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - So I sent messengers H4397 to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:14 - a messenger H4397 came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the [fn]donkeys feeding beside them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:18 -

‘He puts no trust even in His slaves;

And against His angels H4397 He charges error.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:23 -

“If there is an angel H4397 as mediator for him,

One out of a thousand,

To declare to a man what is [fn]right for him,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:7 -

Heth

The angel H4397 of Yahweh encamps around those who fear Him,

And rescues them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:5 -

Let them be like chaff before the wind,

With the angel H4397 of Yahweh driving them on.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 -

Let their way be dark and slippery,

With the angel H4397 of Yahweh pursuing them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 -

He sent upon them His burning anger,

Fury and indignation and [fn]distress,

[fn]A band of destroying angels H4397.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:11 -

For He will command His angels H4397 concerning you,

To guard you in all your ways.


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