G32: ἄγγελος (ángelos)

G32 ἄγγελος (ángelos)

Greek

Quick Definition

ἄγγελος, ου, ὁ n.m. an angel, messenger

Strong's Definition

from aggello (probably derived from 71; compare 34) (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor

KJV Usage: angel, messenger

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἄγγελος (G0032)

noun, m. | -ου | ἀγγέλλω

33.195 · Communication · Inform, Announce

messenger (derivative of ἀγγέλλω ‘to tell, to inform,’ 33.189) a person who makes an announcement

MAT 11:10 · MRK 1:2 · LUK 7:24 · LUK 7:27 · LUK 9:52 · JAS 2:25

12.28 · Supernatural Beings and Powers · Supernatural Beings

angel a supernatural being that attends upon or serves as a messenger of a superior supernatural entity In many languages a term for ‘angels’ is borrowed from another dominant language, but in other instances a somewhat descriptive phrase may be employed. The most common expressions for the ‘angels of God’ are ‘messengers’ and ‘messengers from heaven.’ Sometimes these angels are called ‘spirit messengers’ and even ‘flying messengers.’ In some instances they have been called ‘the holy servants of God,’ but an expression such as ‘servants of God’ or even ‘messengers of God’ tends to overlap in meaning with expressions used to characterize the role and function of the prophets who were sent as messengers from God. In some languages a term for ‘angels’ is contrasted with that for ‘prophets’ by calling angels ‘messengers from heaven’ and prophets ‘messengers from God.’ The ‘angels of the Devil’ are often called ‘the Devil’s servants.’
One cannot avoid problems involved in the rendering of ‘angel’ merely by borrowing a term. In some instances such a borrowing may already exist in the language and with a different meaning. For example, in one instance 'angel' had already been borrowed but with a meaning of babies who died at childbirth or shortly thereafter.

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¹ ἀπόστολος[b] (33.194) and ἄγγελος[a] (33.195) appear to differ in meaning in that in the case of ἀπόστολος[b] the focus is upon one who is sent, while in the case of ἄγγελος[a] the focus appears to be upon the message which is communicated.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἄγγελος, -ου, ὁ, 1. a messenger, envoy, one who is sent: Mt. xi. 10; Lk. vil. 24, 27; ix. 52; Mk. i. 2; Jas. li. 25. [Fr. Hom. down. ] 2. In the Scriptures, both of the Old Test. and of the New, one of that host of heavenly spirits that, according alike to Jewish and Christian opinion, wait upon the monarch of the universe, and are sent by him to earth, now to execute his purposes (Mt. iv. 6, 11; xxviii. 2; Mk.i. 13; Lk. xvi. 22; xxii. 43 [L br. WH reject the pass.]; Acts vii. 35; xii. 23; Gal. iii. 19, ef. Heb. i. 14), now to make them known to men (LK. i. 11, 26, ii. 9 sqq.; Acts x. 3; xxvii. 23; Mt. i. 20; ii. 13; xxviii. 5; Jn. xx. 12 sq.); hence the frequent expressions ἄγγελος (angel, messenger of God, 3x90) and ἄγγελοι κυρίου or ayy. τοῦ θεοῦ. They are subject not only to God but also to Christ (Heb. i. 4 sqq.; 1 Pet. iii. 22, ef. Eph. i. 21; Gal. iv. 14), who is described as hereafter to return to judgment surrounded by a multitude of them as servants and attendants: Mt. xiii. 41, 49; xvi. 27; xxiv. 31; xxv. 31; 2 Th.i. 7, ef. Jude 14. Single angels have the charge of separate elements; as fire, Rev. xiv. 18; waters, Rey. xvi. 5, ef. vii. 1 sq.; Jn. v. 4 [R L}. Respecting the ἄγγελος τῆς ἀβύσσου, Rev. ix. 11, see ᾿Αβαδδών, 3. Guardian angels of individuals are mentioned in Mt. xvuii. 10; Acts xii.15. ‘ The angels of the churches’ in Rey. i. 20; ii. 1, 8, 12, 18; iii. 1, 7, 14 are not their presbyters or bishops, but heavenly spirits who exercise such a superintendence and guardianship over them that whatever in their assemblies is worthy of praise or of censure is counted to the praise or the blame of their angels also, as though the latter infused their spirit into the assemblies; cf. De Wette, Diisterdieck, [Alford,] on Rey. i. 20, and Liicke, Einl. in ἃ. Offenb. ἃ. Johan. ii. p- 429 sq. ed. 2; [Bp. Lghtft. on Philip. p. 199 sq.]. διὰ τοὺς ἀγγέλους that she may show reverence for the angels, invisibly present in the religious assemblies of Christians, and not displease them, 1 Co. xi. 10. ὠῴφθη ἀγγέλοις in 1 Tim. iii. 16 is probably to be explained neither of angels to whom Christ exhibited himself in heaven, nor of demons triumphed over by him in the nether world, but of the apostles, his messengers, to whom he appeared after his resurrection. This appellation, which is certainly extraordinary, is easily understood from the nature of the hymn from which the passage ἐφανερώθη . . . ἐν δόξῃ seems to have been taken; ef. W. 639 sq. (594), [for other interpretations see Ellic. ad loc.]. In Jn.i. 51 (52) angels are employed, by a beautiful image borrowed from Gen. xxviii. 12, to represent the divine power that will aid Jesus in the discharge of his Messianic oflice, and the signal proofs to appear in his history of a divine superintendence. Certain of the angels have proved faithless to the trust committed to them by God, and have given themselves up to sin, Jude 6; 2 Pet. ii. 4 (Enoch ο. vi. ete., ef. Gen. vi. 2), and now obey the devil, Mt. xxv. 41; Rev. xii. 7, ef. 1 Co. vi. 3 [yet on this last passage οἵ. Meyer; he and others maintain that dyy. without an epithet or limitation never in the N. T. signifies other than good angels]. Hence ἄγγελος Saray is trop. used in 2 Co. xii. 7 to denote a grievous bodily malady sent by Satan. See δαίμων ; [Soph. Lex. s. v. ἄγγελος ; and for the literature on the whole subject B. 1). Am. ed. s. v. Angels, — and to the reff. there given add G. LZ. Hahn, Theol. des N. T., i. pp- 260-384; Delitzsch in Riehm 8. v. Engel; Kiibel in Herzog ed. 2, ibid.].

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀγγέλλω angellō 1x

to tell, to announce, Jn. 20:18*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἄγγελος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for מַלְאָךְ;]

a messenger, one sent: Mt 11:10, Ja 22:25.

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 Lk 1:11, or to execute them, as Mt 4:6. The ἄ. in Re 1:20 2:1, al., is variously understood as a messenger or delegate,

a bishop or ruler,

a guardian angel,

the prevailing spirit of each church, i.e. the Church itself. (Cf. Swete, Ap)., in l.; DB, iv, 991; Thayer, s.v.; Cremer, 18; MM, VGT, s.v.)

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἄγγελος. In Sy// 51271, a dialect inscr. of ii/B.c. from Calymna, ἄγγελοι are envoys whose names are given. The word is used in the sense of ‘‘intermediary” (cf. Gal 319) in Sy// 122” (iv/B.C.) ὀμόσαι δ] ἀγγέλλων. For the presumably Christian ‘‘angel” inscriptions from Thera see Deissmann LAE, Ῥ. 279 with accompanying facsimile, and the paper “It is his Angel” (J. H. M.) in 71.5 1902, p. 519 f. Add (from Cronert) 7G XII. iii. 933. In Archzv iii. p. 445, No. 67, is published a Greek inscription from Assouan of the time of M. Aurelius, which begins—MeyaAy τύχῃ τοῦ [θε]ο[ῦ. . . τ]ῶν ἀνγέλων τῆς [ἱ]ερεί[ας] : cf. alsop. 451 No. 94 (time of Diocletian), Ὑπὲρ εὐχῆς τῶν ἀνγέλων ’Epeonvol ἀνέθηκαν | κτὰ. Οἱ ἄγγελοι θεοῦ, as in 1 Tim 54, occurs in the extremely interesting Jewish inscription Sy// 816'° κύριε Oo | πάντα ἐ[φ)ορῶν kal οἱ ἄνγελοι θεοῦ. Dittenberger assigns it to i/A.D. and yet apparently prefers to regard it as Christian : there does not, however, seem to be anything distinctive of Christianity—it is a Jewish prayer for vengeance upon unknown murderers: see Deissmann LAZ, p. 423ff. It is interesting to observe that the special meaning ‘‘angel” is |

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἄγγελος (angelos) — angel. ἄγγελος, ὁ, ἡ, messenger, envoy, [Refs 8th c.BC+] — proverbial, Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; of the nightingale, ὄρνις.. Διὸς ἄ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. angel, [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+]

4. in later philosophical, semi-divine being, ἡλιακοὶ ἄ.[Refs 4th c.AD+] in R.2.243 K.; ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι[Refs 5th c.AD+]: also in mystical and magical writings, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. title of Artemis at Syracuse, [Refs 5th c.AD+]

ἄγγελος (angelos) — angel: messenger. ἄγγελος, ὁ, ἡ, messenger, envoy, [Refs 8th c.BC+] — proverbial, Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

3. angel, [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+]

II. title of Artemis at Syracuse, [Refs 5th c.AD+]