Strong's #4397: mal'ak (pronounced mal-awk')
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):--ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mal'âk
1) messenger, representative
1a) messenger
1b) angel
1c) the theophanic angel
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy
Usage:
This word is used 213 times:
1 Chronicles 21:30: "he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 18:12: " And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying,"
2 Chronicles 32:21: "And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders"
2 Chronicles 35:21: "But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not"
2 Chronicles 36:15: "sent to them by his messengers, rising up quickly, and sending; because he had compassion"
2 Chronicles 36:16: "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets,"
Nehemiah 6:3: "And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work,"
Job 1:14: "And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing,"
Job 4:18: "Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:"
Job 33:23: "If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand,"
Psalms 34:7: " The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth"
Psalms 35:5: "as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase"
Psalms 35:6: "be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute"
Psalms 78:49: "and trouble, by sending evil angels"
Psalms 91:11: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."
Psalms 103:20: "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening"
Psalms 104:4: "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:"
Psalms 148:2: "Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts."
Proverbs 13:17: "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health."
Proverbs 16:14: "The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify"
Proverbs 17:11: "only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent"
Ecclesiastes 5:6: "neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore"
Isaiah 14:32: "What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,"
Isaiah 18:2: "upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered"
Isaiah 30:4: "his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes."
Isaiah 33:7: "their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly."
Isaiah 37:9: "with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,"
Isaiah 37:14: "the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up"
Isaiah 37:36: " Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore"
Isaiah 42:19: "but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind"
Isaiah 44:26: "of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities"
Isaiah 63:9: "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity"
Jeremiah 27:3: "of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto"
Ezekiel 17:15: "But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people."
Ezekiel 23:16: "she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea."
Ezekiel 23:40: "from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came:"
Ezekiel 30:9: "In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make"
Hosea 12:4: "Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel,"
Nahum 2:13: "thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard."
Haggai 1:13: "Then spoke Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying,"
Zechariah 1:9: "I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I"
Zechariah 1:11: "And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said,"
Zechariah 1:12: " Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long"
Zechariah 1:13: "And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable"
Zechariah 1:14: " So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith"
Zechariah 1:19: "And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered"
Zechariah 2:3: "And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet"
Zechariah 2:3: "that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet"
Zechariah 3:1: "priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at"
Zechariah 3:3: "garments, and stood before the angel."
