ἄγγελος
angel
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
45 distinct verses where G32 appears in the Genitive case, across 13 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 16:27 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
- Matthew 26:53 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Mark 1 verse
Luke 8 verses
- Luke 2:21 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
- Luke 7:24 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
- Luke 9:26 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
- Luke 12:8 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
- Luke 12:9 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
- Luke 15:10 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."
- Luke 16:22 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
- Luke 24:23 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
Acts 6 verses
- Acts 6:15 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
- Acts 7:35 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
- Acts 7:38 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
- Acts 7:53 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"
- Acts 10:22 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."
- Acts 12:9 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 6 verses
- Hebrews 1:4 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
- Hebrews 1:5 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son, Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, And he will be to me a Son?"
- Hebrews 1:13 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc But of which of the angels has he said at any time, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"
- Hebrews 2:2 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
- Hebrews 2:16 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc For most assuredly, not to angels does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.
- Hebrews 12:22 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 15 verses
- Revelation 1:1 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
- Revelation 3:5 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Revelation 5:11 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
- Revelation 8:4 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.
- Revelation 8:13 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"
- Revelation 10:7 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.
- Revelation 10:8 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
- Revelation 10:10 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
- Revelation 14:10 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
- Revelation 15:8 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
- Revelation 16:5 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
- Revelation 17:1 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
- Revelation 21:9 ἀγγέλων n gen pl masc One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."
- Revelation 21:17 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
- Revelation 22:8 ἀγγέλου n gen sg masc Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
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
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.
- #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
- Revelation 64 verses 37%
- Luke 26 verses 15%
- Acts 21 verses 12%
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God
Word origin
Derived from αγω (ágō) (G71) — to lead.
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
- αγε áge G33 come
- αγελη agélē G34 herd
- αγρα ágra G61 prey
- αγρος agrós G68 land
- αγωγη agōgḗ G72 conduct
- αγων agṓn G73 assembly
- αξιος áxios G514 worthy
- ηγεομαι hēgéomai G2233 to govern
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
- Genesis 16:7 ἄγγελος
- Exodus 3:2 ἄγγελος
- Numbers 20:14 ἄγγελος
- Deuteronomy 32:8 ἄγγελος
- Joshua 7:22 ἄγγελος
- Judges 2:1 ἄγγελος
- 1 Samuel 6:21 ἄγγελος
- 2 Samuel 2:5 ἄγγελος
- 1 Kings 13:18 ἄγγελος
- 2 Kings 1:2 ἄγγελος
- 1 Chronicles 14:1 ἄγγελος
- 2 Chronicles 18:12 ἄγγελος
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.
- Genesis 16:7 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
- Genesis 16:8 ἄγγελος He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
- Genesis 16:9 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
- Genesis 16:10 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
- Genesis 16:11 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
- Genesis 19:1 ἄγγελος The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
- Genesis 19:15 ἄγγελος When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:16 ἄγγελος But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
- Genesis 21:17 ἄγγελος God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 22:11 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
- Genesis 22:15 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
- Genesis 24:7 ἄγγελος Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:40 ἄγγελος He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
- Genesis 28:12 ἄγγελος He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
- Genesis 31:11 ἄγγελος The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
- Genesis 32:2 ἄγγελος When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:4 ἄγγελος He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
- Genesis 32:7 ἄγγελος Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
- Genesis 48:16 ἄγγελος the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
- Exodus 3:2 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
- Exodus 4:24 ἄγγελος It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.
- Exodus 14:19 ἄγγελος The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
- Exodus 23:20 ἄγγελος "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- Exodus 23:23 ἄγγελος For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
- Exodus 32:34 ἄγγελος Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
- Exodus 33:2 ἄγγελος I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Numbers 20:14 ἄγγελος Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has happened to us:
- Numbers 20:16 ἄγγελος and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
- Numbers 22:22 ἄγγελος God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
- Numbers 22:23 ἄγγελος The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.
- Numbers 22:24 ἄγγελος Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
- Numbers 22:25 ἄγγελος The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
- Numbers 22:26 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
- Numbers 22:27 ἄγγελος The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
- Numbers 22:31 ἄγγελος Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
- Numbers 22:32 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:
- Numbers 22:34 ἄγγελος Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
- Numbers 22:35 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
- Numbers 24:12 ἄγγελος Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,
- Deuteronomy 32:8 ἄγγελος When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:43 ἄγγελος Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, Will render vengeance to his adversaries, Will make expiation for his land, for his people.
- Deuteronomy 33:2 ἄγγελος He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, Rose from Seir to them; He shined forth from Mount Paran, He came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
- Joshua 7:22 ἄγγελος So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
- Judges 2:1 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:
- Judges 2:4 ἄγγελος It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
- Judges 4:8 ἄγγελος Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.
- Judges 5:16 ἄγγελος Why sat you among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
- Judges 5:23 ἄγγελος Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse you bitterly the inhabitants of it, Because they didn't come to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh against the mighty.
- Judges 6:11 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Judges 6:12 ἄγγελος The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.
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.
