noun · masculine
archangelos
Strong’sG743
a ruler of angels, a superior angel, an archangel
stem archangel-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† ἀρχ-άγγελος, -ου, ὁ
(< ἄρχι-, ἄγγελος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G743 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar-khang'-el-os
a chief angel
Fromfrom G757 and G32;
King Jamesarchangel.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
archangel, LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+:—adjective ἀρτ-γελικός, ή, όν, θεοίRefs 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 | archangelos1×ἀρχάγγελος | archangelois |
| object accusative | archangelon | archangeloin |
| direct address vocative | archangelor | archangeloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | archangelou1×ἀρχαγγέλου | archangeloiu |
| to, for dative | archangelo | archangeloi |
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
archangelo 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
archangelos“archangel”subjectnominative singular1×
Jude 1:9tos de Michaēl tos archangelos, hote to diabolo diakrinorōntos dialegote peri …But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the …
archangelou“archangel”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Thessalonians 4:16… tos kurios en keleusme, en fōna archangelou kai en salpinga theou, katabaineti apo …… command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God …