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ἄγγελος

angel

G32 Strong's Greek
ángelos Transliteration
/ang'-el-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 177 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“angel” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αγγελος (ángelos). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:20. It appears 173 verses across 18 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Revelation. It shares a root with αγω, αγε and αγελη. See the sense tree, 173-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
angel
Modern gloss
angel
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G32 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

173
distinct verses
The word appears in 173 distinct verses.
18 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:20
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:20.
Revelation 22:16
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:16.
#88
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 88 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 173 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 56 · 32%
  • Acts 21 · 12%
  • Pauline Epistles 14 · 8%
  • General Epistles 18 · 10%
  • Revelation 64 · 37%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 173 distinct verses.

  • Johannine 68 verses · 39%
  • Revelation 64 verses · 37%
  • Gospels 56 verses · 32%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 47 verses · 27%
  • Pauline corpus 14 verses · 8%
  • Hebrews 12 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 3%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Angel 96×, Angels 79×, Messenger 4×
  • American Standard Version: Angel 82×, Angels 79×, Messenger 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Angel 86×, Angels 81×, Messenger 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Angel 88×, Angels 81×, The 9×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G32 across 186 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Angel” 96×
  • “Angels” 79×
  • “Messenger” 4×
  • “Messengers” 3×
  • “Angel's” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G32 across 177 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Angel” 82×
  • “Angels” 79×
  • “Messenger” 4×
  • “Messengers” 3×
  • “The” 3×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G32 across 175 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Angel” 86×
  • “Angels” 81×
  • “Messenger” 4×
  • “Messengers” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G32 across 189 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Angel” 88×
  • “Angels” 81×
  • “The” 9×
  • “Messenger” 4×
  • “Messengers” 3×
  • “A” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God

Word origin

Derived from αγω (ágō) (G71) — to lead.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 02:14,1

From ἀγγέλλω aggellō (probably derived from G71 ; compare G34 ; to bring tidings ); a messenger ; especially an angel ; by implication a pastor : - angel messenger.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 13 distinct written forms G32 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἄγγελος ángelos Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:20 46
ἀγγέλων angélōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 16:27 31
ἄγγελοι ángeloi Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 4:11 22
ἀγγέλους angélous Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 13:41 20
ἄγγελον ángelon Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Luke 1:18 18
ἀγγέλου angélou Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 2:21 14
ἀγγέλοις angélois Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 4:6 9
ἀγγέλῳ angélō Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Luke 2:13 9
ἄγγελόν ángelón Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 11:10 4
ἄγγελοί ángeloí Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 13:39 1
ἄγγελός ángelós Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 12:15 1
Ἄγγελος Ángelos Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 8:26 1
ἤγγειλαν ḗngeilan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 4:51 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G32, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αγγελος appears 246 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 230 verses in 24 books.

246
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
230
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
24 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G32) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 230. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G32) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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