STRONGS G743:
ἀρχάγγελος,
-ου,
ὁ, (from
ἀρχι, which see, and
ἄγγελος), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word,
archangel, i. e. chief of the angels (Hebrew
שַׂר chief, prince,
Daniel 10:20;
Daniel 12:1), or one of the princes and leaders of the angels
(הָרִאשֹׁנִים הַשָּׂרִים,
Daniel 10:13):
1 Thessalonians 4:16;
Jude 1:9. For the Jews after the exile distinguished several orders of angels, and some (as the author of the Book of Enoch, 9:1ff; cf. Dillmann at the passage, p. 97f) reckoned four angels (answering to the four sides of the throne of God) of the highest rank; but others, and apparently the majority (Tobit 12:15, where cf. Fritzsche;
Revelation 8:2), reckoned seven (after the pattern of the seven
Amshaspands, the highest spirits in the religion of Zoroaster). See under the words,
Γαβριήλ and
Μιχαήλ.
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