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 3 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.
- 2 Samuel 24:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 13:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 19:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like the lives of those you killed!”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 19:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 19:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The messengers came back and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘I have sent to you to demand your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:9
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So Ahab answered the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to Ben-hadad.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold now, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Do not be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:32
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 7:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 10:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 14:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 14:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters, to build a palace for him.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 19:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 19:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:15
· BSB · 3 occurrences
Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 18:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 32:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 35:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty, and God has told me to hurry. So stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 6:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”
Read word by word - Job 1:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Read word by word - Job 4:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
Read word by word - Job 33:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
Read word by word - Psalms 34:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 34.8
- Psalms 35:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
Read word by word - Psalms 35:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
Read word by word - Psalms 78:49
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.
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