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The Hebrew word for angel is " malach, " which means messenger, for the angels are G‑d's messengers to perform various missions.
Hebrew mal’ākh is the standard word for "messenger", both human and divine, in the Hebrew Bible; it is also related to the words for "angel" in Arabic ( malāk ملاك ), Aramaic and Ethiopic. It is rarely used for human messengers in Modern Hebrew as the latter is usually denoted by the term shaliyakh ( שליח ). [3]
The earliest references to angels in the Hebrew Bible are found in the books of Genesis and Exodus. The word “angel” comes from the Hebrew word malak, which means “messenger” or “envoy”. Angels are thus understood as God’s messengers, who deliver his messages, execute his judgments, or provide his guidance to humans.
In Hebrew ‘mal’ach (מַלְאָךְ)’ is the standard word for "messenger", in the Tanach, for both human and divine; whereas in Modern Hebrew it is rarely used for human messengers. The noun mal’ach is translated as "angel" 111 times, "messenger" 98 times, "ambassadors" 4 times.
The names of God, angels, the righteous dead, even one’s mother, are considered critical to giving an incantation efficacy (Shabbat 66b). Often the names are encrypted in atbash form (an ancient letter substitution code,”mirroring” the Hebrew alphabet) or in other occult methods.
Oct 25, 2012 · Today, Jewish indifference or resistance to angels is probably as much a reaction to contemporary cultural predilections as adherence to age-old proscriptions; the angels that populate our ...
