ἀρχ-άγγελος, -ov, 6, (fr. ἄρχι, q- V., and ἄγγελος). a bibl. and 660]. word, archangel, i. 6. chief of the angels (Hebr. Ww chief, prince, Dan. x. 20; xii. 1), or one of the princes and leaders of the angels (DYN O WH, Dan. x. 13): 1 Th. iv. 16; Jude 9. For the Jews after the exile distinguished several orders of angels, and some (as the author of the book of Enoch, ix. 1 sqq.; ef. Dillmann ad loc. p. 97 sq.) reckoned four angels (answering to the four sides of the throne of God) of the highest rank; but others, and apparently the majority (Tob. xii. 15, where ef. Fritzsche; Rev. viii. 2), reckoned seven (after the pattern of the seven Amshaspands, the hichest spirits in the religion of Zoroaster). See 8. vv. Γὰβριήλ and Μιχαήλ.

ἀρχάγγελος archangelos 2x

an archangel, chief angel, 1 Thess. 4:16; Jude 9*

*† ἀρχ-άγγελος, -ου, ὁ

(< ἄρχι-, ἄγγελος),

archangel, a chief angel: I Th 4:16, Ju 9 (Cremer, 24; MM, s.v.).†

ἀρχάγγελος. ‘This title, which is found in the Greek Bible only in 1 Th 415, Jude ®, passed into the magical papyri, e.g. P Lond I. 1219? (ili/a.p.) (=I. p. 92) τῷ κυρίῳ pov τῷ ἀρχαγγέλῳ Μιχαήλ, and the Paris papyrus 57412 (iii/A.D.) ὃ κτίσας θεοὺς kal apxayyéAous. In addition to other references to the syncretic literature of the Imperial period Nageli (p. 48 n?) cites a gnostic inscription from Miletus C/G 2895 ἀρχάγγελον φυλάσσεται ἡ πόλις Μιλησίων. That the word was coined in Judaism to express a Jewish idea is of course obvious: it need only be mentioned that the prefix apy (y. v.) could be attached to any word at will. On Grimm’s note upon the archangelic Heptad reference might be made to the Hibbert Lectures (1912) on Zarly Zoroastrianism, Pp. 241.

ἀρχάγγελος (archangelos) — archangel. ἀρχάγγελος, ον, archangel, [LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+]:—adjective ἀρτ-γελικός, ή, όν, θεοί[Refs 5th c.AD+]