noun · masculine
angelos
Strong’sG32
an angel, messenger
stem angel-175 times in the New Testamentin 18 of 27 books8 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
A messenger — someone sent to carry news, deliver a message, or act as an envoy 1234.
An angel — a spiritual, heavenly being who attends God and is sent by him as a messenger to reveal his purposes to people or to carry them out 13. By extension, the word can also be used of a pastor 2. In the book of Revelation, the "angels" addressed at the start of each letter to a church have been understood in different ways: as human messengers or delegates, as bishops or church leaders, as guardian angels, or as the presiding spirit representing each church 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
ἄγγελος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for מַלְאָךְ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G32 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
messenger, envoy, Refs 8th c.BC+ — proverbial, Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Refs 8th c.BC+; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, Refs 6th c.BC+; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, Refs 6th c.BC+; of the nightingale, ὄρνις.. Διὸς ἄ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 angel, LXX+NT+1st c.AD+
4 in later philosophical, semi-divine being, ἡλιακοὶ ἄ.Refs 4th c.AD+ in R.2.243 K.; ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοιRefs 5th c.AD+: also in mystical and magical writings, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II title of Artemis at Syracuse, Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | angelos47×ἄγγελος | angelois23×ἄγγελοι |
| object accusative | angelon22×ἄγγελον | angeloin20×ἀγγέλους |
| direct address vocative | angelor | angeloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | angelou14×ἀγγέλου | angeloiu31×ἀγγέλων |
| to, for dative | angelo9×ἀγγέλῳ | angeloi9×ἀγγέλοις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
angelo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
175 occurrences, 100 of them printed here — the rest are in the reader
angelos“angel”subjectnominative singular47×, 14 shown
Matthew 1:20houteim de autou enthumirantou idou angelos kuriou kata onarem fanita auto legarōntos; …… he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him …
Matthew 1:24… hupnou poiata hōs prostassata auto tos angelos kuriou kai paralabata tan gunaikan autou;… woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him …
Matthew 2:13Anachōrarantoiu de autoiu idou angelos kuriou fanotō kata onarem to Iōsēf …When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph …
Matthew 2:19Teleutarantou de tou Hērōdou idou angelos kuriou fanotō kata onarem to Iōsēf …After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a …
Matthew 28:2kai idou seismos geneta megos; angelos gar kuriou katabainarantos ek ouranou kai …… was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven …
Matthew 28:5apokrinirantos de tos angelos legata tai gunaikai; Mē fobovōr vis, …But the angel said to the women, “Do not …
Luke 1:11horita de auto angelos kuriou stēarēntos ek dexeiu teu thusiastērieu …Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah …
Luke 1:13legata de pros auton tos angelos; Mē fobosōr, Zacharior, dioti eisakouita tas …But the angel said to him, “Do not be …
Luke 1:19kai apokrinirantos tos angelos legata auto; Mis amō Gabriēl tos …“I am Gabriel,” replied the angel. “I stand in the presence of …
Luke 1:26… to mēno to hekto apostelita tos angelos Gabriēl apo tou theou eis polan …… the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee …
Luke 1:30kai legata tos angelos auta; Mē fobosōr, Mariam, heuriskasa gar …So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid …
Luke 1:35kai apokrinirantos tos angelos legata auta; Pneumem hagiem epercheti epi …The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come …
Luke 1:38… su. kai aperchata apo autau tos angelos.… according to your word.” Then the angel left her.
Luke 2:9kai angelos kuriou epistēata autoi kai doxas kuriou …Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them …
angelon“angel”objectaccusative singular22×, 14 shown
Matthew 11:10… hou grafotē; Idou mis apostelamō ton angelon mu pro prosōpeu su, hos kataskeuazati …… written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare …
Mark 1:2… Ēsaio to profēto; Idou apostelamō ton angelon mu pro prosōpeu su, hos kataskeuazati …… prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare …
Luke 1:18kai legata Zacharios pros ton angelon; Kata tinem gnōskemi houtem? mis gar …… sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and …
Luke 1:34legata de Mariam pros ton angelon; Pōs eti houtem, epei andron ouk …… can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
Luke 7:27… peri hou grafotē; Idou apostelamō ton angelon mu pro prosōpeu su, hos kataskeuazati …… written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare …
Acts 10:3… hōsei peri hōran enatan tau hēmerau angelon tou theou eisercharanton pros auton kai …… had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him …
Acts 11:13apangelata de ni pōs horata ton angelon en to oiko autou stēiranton kai …… us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying …
Acts 12:11… alēthōs hoti exapostelata tos kurios ton angelon autou kai exaireta min ek cheirau …… that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp …
Acts 23:8“angel”… gar legalō mē arō anastasian mēte angelon mēte pneumem, Farisaiois de homologalō teim …For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.
2 Corinthians 11:14… autos gar tos Satanos metaschēmatizotō eis angelon fōteu;… for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Galatians 4:14… ouk exouthenava oude ekptuava, alla hōs angelon theou decheva min, hōs Christon Iēsun.… me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were …
Revelation 5:2kai horama angelon ischuron kērussarōnton en fōna mega; Tinos …And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who …
Revelation 7:2kai horama alloson angelon anabainarōnton apo anatolau hēliou, echarōnton sfragidan …And I saw another angel ascending from the east, with the …
Revelation 9:11echalō epi autaiu basilevon ton angelon tau abussau; onomem auto Hebraisti Abaddōn …… were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in …
angelou“angel”of, belonging togenitive singular14×, 13 shown
Luke 2:21… autou Iēsus, tem kalirantem hupo tou angelou pro teu sullabira auton en ta …… was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was …
Acts 6:15… horala tem prosōpem autou hōsei prosōpem angelou.… was like the face of an angel.
Acts 7:35… archonton kai lutrōton apostelatē sun cheira angelou tou horirantou auto en ta bata.… their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the …
Acts 7:38… ekklēsa en ta erēma meta tou angelou tou lalarōntou auto en te ore …… assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount …
Acts 10:22… teu ethneu toiu Ioudaioiu, chrēmatizita hupo angelou hagiou metapempera sin eis ton oikon …… the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence …
Acts 12:9… alēthem atō tem genorōntem dia tou angelou, dokate de horamem bleparō.… he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought …
Revelation 1:1… tache, kai sēmanata apostelarantos dia tou angelou autou to doulo autou Iōanno,… made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
Revelation 8:4“angel’s”… proseuchai toiu hagioiu ek cheirau tou angelou enōpion tou theou.… with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the …
Revelation 10:7… tai hēmerai tau fōnau tou hebdomou angelou, hotan mellateiō salpizarō, kai telita tem …… of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound his …
Revelation 10:8… tem anoigorēntem en ta cheira tou angelou tou stēarēntou epi tau thalassau kai …… open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on …
Revelation 10:10… tem biblaridiem ek tau cheirau tou angelou kai katesthiama autem, kai ate en …… took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it …
Revelation 16:5kai akouama tou angelou teiu hudeiu legarōntou; Dikaios asō, tos …And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are …
Revelation 21:17… tessares pēchoiu, metrem anthrōpou, hem atō angelou.… cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
angelo“angel”to, fordative singular9×
Luke 2:13kai exaifnōs geneta sun to angelo plēthem stratiau ouraniau ainarōntoiu ton theon …And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly …
Revelation 2:1To angelo tau en Efesa ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write …
Revelation 2:8Kai to angelo tau en Smurna ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …To the angel of the church in Smyrna write …
Revelation 2:12Kai to angelo tau en Pergama ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …To the angel of the church in Pergamum write …
Revelation 2:18Kai to angelo tau en Thuateirei ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …To the angel of the church in Thyatira write …
Revelation 3:1Kai to angelo tau en Sardiai ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …“To the angel of the church in Sardis write …
Revelation 3:7Kai to angelo tau en Filadelfeia ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write …
Revelation 3:14Kai to angelo tau en Laodikeia ekklēsau grafasar; Hōdeim …To the angel of the church in Laodicea write …
Revelation 9:14legarōnton to hekto angelo, tos echarōntos tan salpingan; Luasar toin …saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four …
angelois“angels”subjectnominative plural23×, 14 shown
Matthew 4:11… afiēkatō auton tos diabolos, kai idou angelois proserchala kai diakonale auto.Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.
Matthew 13:39… sunteleias aiōnou atō, tois de theristois angelois alō.… the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Matthew 13:49… ta sunteleia tou aiōnou; exercheli tois angelois kai aforizali toin ponēroin ek meseu …… the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked …
Matthew 18:10… houtoiu, legamō gar vi hoti tois angelois autoiu en ouranoi dia pantou blepalō …… For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face …
Matthew 22:30… oute gamalō oute gamizolō, alla hōs angelois theou en to ourano alō;… Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
Matthew 24:36… kai hōrau oudenos oidatē, oude tois angelois toiu ouranoiu oude tos huios, ei …… day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but …
Matthew 25:31… ta doxa autou kai pantois tois angelois meta autou, tote kathizati epi thronou …… in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on …
Mark 1:13… ate meta teiu thēreiu, kai tois angelois diakonale auto.… with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.
Mark 12:25… gamalō oute gamizolō, alla alō hōs angelois en toi ouranoi;… Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
Mark 13:32… tau hōrau oudenos oidatē, oude tois angelois en ourano oude tos huios, ei …… day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but …
Luke 2:15… apo autoiu eis ton ouranon tois angelois, tois poimenois lalale pros allēloin; Dierchaneia …When the angels had left them and gone into …
Romans 8:38… hoti oute thanatos oute zōas oute angelois oute archais oute enstēarēnteim oute mellarōnteim …… that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor …
Hebrews 1:6… oikoumenan, legatō; Kai proskunalar auto pantois angelois theou.… world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”
1 Peter 1:12… apostelirante apo ouranou, eis heim epithumalō angelois parakuptara.… Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
angeloin“angels”objectaccusative plural20×, 13 shown
Matthew 13:41apostelati tos huios tou anthrōpou toin angeloin autou, kai sullegali ek tau basileiau …… of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of …
Matthew 24:31kai apostelati toin angeloin autou meta salpingau megau, kai episunagali …And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and …
Mark 13:27kai tote apostelati toin angeloin kai episunagati toin eklektoin ek toiu …And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the …
Luke 9:52kai apostelata angeloin pro prosōpeu autou. kai poreuirantois eiserchala …He sent messengers on ahead, who went into a …
John 1:51… horevi ton ouranon anoigarēnton kai toin angeloin tou theou anabainarōntoin kai katabainarōntoin epi …… all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on …
John 20:12kai theōratō duo angeloin en leukei kathezorōntoin, henon pros ta …and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body …
1 Corinthians 6:3ouk oidavē hoti angeloin krinani, mētige biōtikeim?… not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of …
1 Corinthians 11:10… echarō epi tau kefalau dia toin angeloin.… on her head, because of the angels.
Hebrews 1:7kai pros men toin angeloin legatō; Tos poiarōntos toin angeloin autou …Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels …
Hebrews 1:7… toin angeloin legatō; Tos poiarōntos toin angeloin autou pneumeim, kai toin leitourgoin autou …… angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”
Hebrews 2:7elattasa auton brachu tinem para angeloin, doxa kai tima stefanasa auton,… him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and …
Hebrews 2:9ton de brachu tinem para angeloin elattorēnton blepanō Iēsun dia tem pathēmem …… made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor …
Hebrews 13:2… dia houtau gar lathala tinois xenizarantois angeloin.… so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
angeloiu“angels”of, belonging togenitive plural31×, 14 shown
Matthew 16:27… doxa tou patrou autou meta toiu angeloiu autou, kai tote apodōati hekasto kata …… in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each …
Matthew 26:53… parastēati mi arti pollotereim dōdeka legiōnain angeloiu?… disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
Mark 8:38… doxa tou patrou autou meta toiu angeloiu toiu hagioiu.… His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Luke 7:24Apercharantoiu de toiu angeloiu Iōannou archeta legarō pros toin ochloin …After John’s messengers had left, Jesus began to speak …
Luke 9:26… kai tou patrou kai toiu hagioiu angeloiu.… the Father and of the holy angels.
Luke 12:8… anthrōpou homologati en auto emprosthen toiu angeloiu tou theou;… will also confess him before the angels of God.
Luke 12:9… enōpion toiu anthrōpoiu aparniti enōpion toiu angeloiu tou theou.… men will be denied before the angels of God.
Luke 15:10… legamō vi, genotō charas enōpion toiu angeloiu tou theou epi heno hamartōlo metanoarōnto.… joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
Luke 16:22… ptōchon kai apoferira auton hupo toiu angeloiu eis ton kolpon Abraam; apothnēskata de …… died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich …
Luke 24:23… sōmem autou erchala legarōntais kai optasian angeloiu horarē, hois legalō auton zōarō.… they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
Acts 7:53hotinois labava ton nomon eis diatagain angeloiu, kai ouk fulassava.… who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
1 Corinthians 13:1… glōssai toiu anthrōpoiu lalameiō kai toiu angeloiu, agapan de mē echameiō, genamē chalkos …… the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am …
Galatians 3:19… tem spermem he epangelotē, diatassirantos dia angeloiu en cheira mesitou;… promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
Colossians 2:18… thelarōntos en tapeinofrosuna kai thrēskeia toiu angeloiu, heim horatē embateuarōntos, eikē fusiorōntos hupo …… false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what …
angeloi“angels”to, fordative plural9×
Matthew 4:6… siauton katō; grafotē gar hoti Toi angeloi autou enteleti peri su kai epi …… is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift …
Matthew 25:41… tem hetoimazorēntem to diabolo kai toi angeloi autou.… prepared for the devil and his angels.
Luke 4:10grafotē gar hoti Toi angeloi autou enteleti peri su teu diafulassara …… is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully,
1 Corinthians 4:9… hoti theatrem genina to kosmo kai angeloi kai anthrōpoi.… spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
1 Timothy 3:16… en sarka, dikaiita en pneume, horita angeloi, kērussita en ethnei, pisteuita en kosmo, …… by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was …
Hebrews 2:5Ouk gar angeloi hupotassata tan oikoumenan tan mellarōntan, peri …For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world …
Revelation 7:2… kai krazata fōna mega toi tessares angeloi hoi dōita autoi adikara tan gēan …… a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to …
Revelation 15:7… teiu tessares zōeiu dōata toi hepta angeloi hepta fialain chrusouain gemarōntain tou thumou …… four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the …
Revelation 16:1… ek tou naou legarōntau toi hepta angeloi; Hupagavōr kai ekchavōr tain hepta fialain …… the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth …