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ἄγγελος (angelos) means “angel” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἄγγελος Greek · G32 174 tagged occurrences in 170 verses

Pronunciation guide: ang'-el-os Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G0032G

ἄγγελος · angelos · angel

ἄγγελος, -ου, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for מַלְאָךְ ;] 1. a messenger, one sent: Mat.11:10, Jas.22:25. 2. As in LXX, in the special sense of angel, a spiritual, heavenly being, attendant upon God and employed as his messenger to men, to make known his purposes, as Luk.1:11, or to execute them, as Mat.4:6. The ἄ. in Rev.1:20-2:1, al., is variously understood as (1) a messenger or delegate, (2) a bishop or ruler, (3) a guardian angel, (4) the prevailing spirit of each church, i.e. the Church itself. (Cf. Swete, Ap)., in l.; DB, iv, 991; Thayer, see word; Cremer, 18; MM, VGT, see word) (AS)

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TBESG · G0032H

ἄγγελος · angelos · angel: messenger

ἄγγελος, -ου, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for מַלְאָךְ ;] 1. a messenger, one sent: Mat.11:10, Jas.22:25. 2. As in LXX, in the special sense of angel, a spiritual, heavenly being, attendant upon God and employed as his messenger to men, to make known his purposes, as Luk.1:11, or to execute them, as Mat.4:6. The ἄ. in Rev.1:20-2:1, al., is variously understood as (1) a messenger or delegate, (2) a bishop or ruler, (3) a guardian angel, (4) the prevailing spirit of each church, i.e. the Church itself. (Cf. Swete, Ap)., in l.; DB, iv, 991; Thayer, see word; Cremer, 18; MM, VGT, see word) (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

a messenger, generally a (supernatural) messenger from God, an angel, conveying news or behests from God to men.

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How translators render G32

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
angels 64
angel 60
an angel 20
the angels 8
of angels 5
the angel 4
messenger 3
messengers 2
of an angel 2
to angels 2
a messenger 1
by angels 1
even angels 1
spies 1
with angels 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
angels 45
angel 36
the angel 36
the angels 22
an angel 13
of angels 7
the 5
unto the angel 5
of the angel 4
of the angels 4
messenger 3
of the 2
the messengers 2
to the angel 2
messengers 1
of an angel 1
than the angels 1
the messenger 1
to angels 1
unto the angels 1

Verses containing G32

Page 2 of 4. 170 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Luke 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.

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  2. John 1:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

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  3. John 12:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.

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  4. John 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.

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  5. Acts 5:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,

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  6. Acts 6:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

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  7. Acts 7:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

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  8. Acts 7:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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  9. Acts 7:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

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  10. Acts 7:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

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  11. Acts 8:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”

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  12. Acts 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

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  13. Acts 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.

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  14. Acts 10:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”

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  15. Acts 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.

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  16. Acts 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

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  17. Acts 12:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Get dressed and put on your sandals,” said the angel. Peter did so, and the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”

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  18. Acts 12:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

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  19. Acts 12:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.

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  20. Acts 12:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

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  21. Acts 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

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  22. Acts 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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  23. Acts 23:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

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  24. Acts 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

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  25. Acts 27:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

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  26. Romans 8:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

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  27. 1 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

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  28. 1 Corinthians 6:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

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  29. 1 Corinthians 11:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

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  30. 1 Corinthians 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

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  31. 2 Corinthians 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

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  32. 2 Corinthians 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

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  33. Galatians 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse!

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  34. Galatians 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

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  35. Galatians 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

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  36. Colossians 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

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  37. 2 Thessalonians 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

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  38. 1 Timothy 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

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  39. 1 Timothy 5:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.

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  40. Hebrews 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.

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  41. Hebrews 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?

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  42. Hebrews 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

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  43. Hebrews 1:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”

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  44. Hebrews 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?

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  45. Hebrews 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

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  46. Hebrews 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

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  47. Hebrews 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor

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  48. Hebrews 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

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  49. Hebrews 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.

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  50. Hebrews 12:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

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