TBESH · H4397G
מַלְאָךְ · ma.le.akh · messenger
: messenger 1) messenger, representative 1a) messenger 1b) angel 1c) the theophanic angel
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ma.le.akh H4397
מַלְאָךְ (ma.le.akh) means “messenger” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מַלְאָךְ Hebrew · H4397 214 tagged occurrences in 197 verses
Pronunciation guide: mal-awk' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H4397H
מַלְאָךְ · ma.le.akh · messenger: angel
: angel 1) messenger, representative 1a) messenger 1b) angel 1c) the theophanic angel
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
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)
KJV glosses: ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
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How translators render H4397
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| messengers | 46 |
| the angel | 36 |
| then the angel | 13 |
| and the angel | 11 |
| the messenger | 8 |
| the messengers | 8 |
| an angel | 6 |
| to the angel | 5 |
| a messenger | 4 |
| angels | 3 |
| as the angel | 3 |
| envoys | 3 |
| his angels | 3 |
| when the messengers | 3 |
| and when the messengers | 2 |
| at that time the angel | 2 |
| but the angel | 2 |
| his angel | 2 |
| his messengers | 2 |
| like the angel | 2 |
| messenger | 2 |
| my angel | 2 |
| now the angel | 2 |
| of the angel | 2 |
| so the angel | 2 |
| the envoys | 2 |
| then the messenger | 2 |
| when the messenger | 2 |
| all his angels | 1 |
| and an angel | 1 |
| and the angels | 1 |
| and their envoys | 1 |
| and when the angel | 1 |
| angel | 1 |
| as an angel | 1 |
| but when the angel | 1 |
| he | 1 |
| his envoys | 1 |
| is a messenger | 1 |
| is the messenger | 1 |
| just like the angel | 1 |
| just then the angel | 1 |
| kings | 1 |
| like the messenger | 1 |
| my messenger | 1 |
| of his messengers | 1 |
| of your messengers | 1 |
| so the messenger | 1 |
| so the messengers | 1 |
| so the scouts | 1 |
| the angels | 1 |
| the men | 1 |
| the messengers back | 1 |
| the spies | 1 |
| then a messenger | 1 |
| there the angel | 1 |
| to the envoys | 1 |
| to the messengers | 1 |
| when the angel | 1 |
| with the angel | 1 |
| your servants | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| messengers | 45 |
| and the angel | 31 |
| the angel | 16 |
| an angel | 10 |
| the messengers | 8 |
| then the angel | 7 |
| a messenger | 5 |
| and the messengers | 5 |
| unto the angel | 5 |
| and the messenger | 3 |
| but the angel | 3 |
| messenger | 3 |
| of the messengers | 3 |
| the messenger | 3 |
| to the angel | 3 |
| unto the messengers | 3 |
| and an angel | 2 |
| and let the angel | 2 |
| and when the messengers | 2 |
| angels | 2 |
| as an angel | 2 |
| his angel | 2 |
| of an angel | 2 |
| that the angel | 2 |
| ambassadors | 1 |
| and behold the angel | 1 |
| and behold the angels | 1 |
| and his ambassadors | 1 |
| and his angels | 1 |
| and it came to pass when the angel | 1 |
| and the angels | 1 |
| and when the angel | 1 |
| angel | 1 |
| as my messenger | 1 |
| as the angel | 1 |
| be a messenger | 1 |
| behold then an angel | 1 |
| even the messenger | 1 |
| for as an angel | 1 |
| for he shall give his angels | 1 |
| for mine angel | 1 |
| him but ere the messenger | 1 |
| his ambassadors | 1 |
| his angels | 1 |
| his messengers | 1 |
| i not also to thy messengers | 1 |
| i to the angel | 1 |
| my messenger | 1 |
| of his messengers | 1 |
| of messengers | 1 |
| of the angel | 1 |
| of thy messengers | 1 |
| over the angel | 1 |
| shall messengers | 1 |
| so the angel | 1 |
| so the messenger | 1 |
| the ambassadors | 1 |
| then the angels | 1 |
| these and the angel | 1 |
| thy messengers | 1 |
| unto the messenger | 1 |
| unto thee behold mine angel | 1 |
| unto whom a messenger | 1 |
| was upon the messengers | 1 |
| when kings | 1 |
| when the messenger | 1 |
| with them behold the messenger | 1 |
| ye him all his angels | 1 |
| ye his angels | 1 |
Verses containing H4397
Page 1 of 4. 197 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
Read word by word - Genesis 16:10
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Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
Read word by word - Genesis 16:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
Read word by word - Genesis 19:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
Read word by word - Genesis 19:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Read word by word - Genesis 21:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
Read word by word - Genesis 22:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Read word by word - Genesis 22:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
Read word by word - Genesis 24:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
Read word by word - Genesis 28:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
Read word by word - Genesis 31:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
Read word by word - Genesis 32:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.2
- Genesis 32:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.4
- Genesis 32:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.7
- Genesis 48:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
Read word by word - Exodus 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
Read word by word - Exodus 14:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
Read word by word - Exodus 23:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Read word by word - Exodus 23:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
Read word by word - Exodus 32:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
Read word by word - Exodus 33:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Read word by word - Numbers 20:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,
Read word by word - Numbers 20:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
Read word by word - Numbers 21:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Read word by word - Numbers 22:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
he sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt,” said Balak. “They cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God’s anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either side.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD and pressed herself against the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat her once again.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or left.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
Read word by word - Numbers 22:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Read word by word - Numbers 24:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not already tell the messengers you sent me
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 2:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
Read word by word - Joshua 6:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
Read word by word - Joshua 6:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there it all was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.
Read word by word - Judges 2:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
Read word by word - Judges 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Read word by word - Judges 5:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
Read word by word - Judges 6:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Read word by word - Judges 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
Read word by word - Judges 6:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
Read word by word - Judges 6:21
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
Read word by word - Judges 6:22
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
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