Strong's Concordance H4397

Original Word: מֲלְאָךְ
Transliteration: mălʼâk
Phonetic Spelling: 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.

Usages throughout the bible

Judges 6:35 - And he sent messengers H4397 throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers H4397 unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

Judges 7:24 - And Gideon sent messengers H4397 throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.

Judges 9:31 - And he sent messengers H4397 unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.

Judges 11:12 - And Jephthah sent messengers H4397 unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?

Judges 11:13 - And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers H4397 of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

Judges 11:14 - And Jephthah sent messengers H4397 again unto the king of the children of Ammon:

Judges 11:17 - Then Israel sent messengers H4397 unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

Judges 11:19 - And Israel sent messengers H4397 unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

Judges 13:3 - And the angel H4397 of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

Judges 13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel H4397 of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

Judges 13:9 - And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel H4397 of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

Judges 13:13 - And the angel H4397 of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

Judges 13:15 - And Manoah said unto the angel H4397 of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

Judges 13:16 - And the angel H4397 of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel H4397 of the LORD.

Judges 13:17 - And Manoah said unto the angel H4397 of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

Judges 13:18 - And the angel H4397 of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

Judges 13:20 - For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel H4397 of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

Judges 13:21 - But the angel H4397 of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel H4397 of the LORD.

1 Samuel 6:21 - And they sent messengers H4397 to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

1 Samuel 11:3 - And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers H4397 unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

1 Samuel 11:4 - Then came the messengers H4397 to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

1 Samuel 11:7 - And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, H4397 saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

1 Samuel 11:9 - And they said unto the messengers H4397 that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers H4397 came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

1 Samuel 16:19 - Wherefore Saul sent messengers H4397 unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

1 Samuel 19:11 - Saul also sent messengers H4397 unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

1 Samuel 19:14 - And when Saul sent messengers H4397 to take David, she said, He is sick.

1 Samuel 19:15 - And Saul sent the messengers H4397 again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

1 Samuel 19:16 - And when the messengers H4397 were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.

1 Samuel 19:20 - And Saul sent messengers H4397 to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers H4397 of Saul, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 19:21 - And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, H4397 and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers H4397 again the third time, and they prophesied also.

1 Samuel 23:27 - But there came a messenger H4397 unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

1 Samuel 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers H4397 out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

1 Samuel 25:42 - And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers H4397 of David, and became his wife.

1 Samuel 29:9 - And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel H4397 of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

2 Samuel 2:5 - And David sent messengers H4397 unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.

2 Samuel 3:12 - And Abner sent messengers H4397 to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.

2 Samuel 3:14 - And David sent messengers H4397 to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 3:26 - And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers H4397 after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

2 Samuel 5:11 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers H4397 to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

2 Samuel 11:4 - And David sent messengers, H4397 and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

2 Samuel 11:19 - And charged the messenger, H4397 saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

2 Samuel 11:22 - So the messenger H4397 went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.

2 Samuel 11:23 - And the messenger H4397 said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.

2 Samuel 11:25 - Then David said unto the messenger, H4397 Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

2 Samuel 12:27 - And Joab sent messengers H4397 to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.

2 Samuel 14:17 - Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel H4397 of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.

2 Samuel 14:20 - To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel H4397 of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

2 Samuel 19:27 - And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel H4397 of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

2 Samuel 24:16 - And when the angel H4397 stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel H4397 that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel H4397 of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:17 - And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel H4397 that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.