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מֲלְאָךְ

malak

mal-awk'

Strong's 1890 spelling: mălʼâk

a messenger

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)

Rendered in the KJV as

ambassador, angel, king, messenger.

  • 213
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 25 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 88
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 213 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 88

  • מַלְאַ֣ךְ23
  • מַלְאָכִ֔ים14
  • מַלְאַ֥ךְ9
  • הַמַּלְאָ֖ךְ7
  • הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים7
  • מַלְאַ֨ךְ6
  • מַלְאַ֤ךְ6
  • מַלְאַךְ־6
  • מַלְאָכִים֙6
  • הַמַּלְאָכִ֖ים5
  • מַלְאֲכֵ֣י5
  • הַמַּלְאָךְ֙4

and 76 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 43

  • [the] angel of49
  • messengers42
  • the angel17
  • the messengers15
  • and [the] angel of10
  • the messenger10
  • an angel7
  • [the] messengers of5
  • a messenger4
  • messengers his4
  • and a messenger3
  • and messengers3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 22

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)55
  • noun · masculine plural43
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular27
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural17
  • noun · masculine singular12
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)11
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)10
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular5
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural3
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 55
  • HNcmpa · 43
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 27
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 17
  • HNcmsa · 12
  • HC/Ncmsc · 11
  • HNcmpc · 10
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 7
  • HC/Ncmsa · 5
  • HR/Ncmsc · 4
  • HC/Ncmpa · 3
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 3

All 213, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis17 occurrences
Exodus6 occurrences
Numbers15 occurrences
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges31 occurrences
1 Samuel19 occurrences
2 Samuel19 occurrences
1 Kings8 occurrences
2 Kings20 occurrences
1 Chronicles12 occurrences
2 Chronicles5 occurrences
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Job3 occurrences
Psalms8 occurrences
Proverbs3 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah10 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel4 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Nahum1 occurrence
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah20 occurrences
Malachi3 occurrences

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Trails through this word

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).