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Μιχαήλ

Michael

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Michael’ fuller range ↓

G3413 Strong's Greek
Michaḗl Transliteration
/mikh-ah-ale'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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Μιχαηλ — transliterated Michaḗl — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Michael.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Jude. Debuting at Jude 1:9, it then recurs through the corpus. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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

Strong's G3413 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Jude 1:9
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Jude 1:9.
Revelation 12:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 12:7.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 1 · 50%
  • Revelation 1 · 50%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Johannine 1 verse · 50%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 50%

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: Michael 2×
  • American Standard Version: Michael 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Michael 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Michael 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3413 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Michael” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3413 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Michael” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3413 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Michael” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3413 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Michael” 2×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses 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. Michael = "who is like God"
  2. the first of the chief princes or archangels who is supposed to be the guardian angel of the Israelites

Word origin

Derived from מיכאל (Mîykâʼêl) (H4317) — Michael.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Of hebrew origin [ H4317 ]; Michael an archangel : - Michael.

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


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Michael). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Who is like God? (1.) The title given to one of the chief angels (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1). He had special charge of Israel as a nation. He disputed with Satan (Jude 1:9) about the body of Moses. He is also represented as warning against "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world" (Rev. 12:7-9).

(2.) The father of Sethur, the spy selected to represent Asher (Num. 13:13).

(3.) 1 Chr. 7:3, a chief of the tribe of Issachar.

(4.) 1 Chr. 8:16, a Benjamite.

(5.) A chief Gadite in Bashan (1 Chr. 5:13).

(6.) A Manassite, "a captain of thousands" who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:20).

(7.) A Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 6:40).

(8.) The father of Omri (1 Chr. 27:18).

(9.) One of the sons of king Jehoshaphat (2 Chr. 21:2, 4). He was murdered by his brother Jehoram.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(who is like God?).

+ An Asherite, father of Sethur, one of the twelve spies. (Numbers 13:13) + One of the Gadites who settled in the land of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:13) + Another Gadite, ancestor of Abihail. (1 Chronicles 5:14) + A Gershionite Levite, ancestor of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 6:40) + One of the five sons of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:3) + A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:16) + One of the captains of the "thousands" of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:20) + The father or ancestor of Omri, chief of the tribe of Issachar in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:18) + One of the sons of Jehoshaphat who were murdered by their elder brother, Jehoram. (2 Chronicles 21:2,4) + The father or ancestor of Zebadiah, of the sons of Shephatiah. (Ezra 8:8) + "One," or "the first, of the chief princes" or archangels, (Daniel 10:21) as the "prince" of Israel, and in ch. (Daniel 12:1) as "the great prince which standeth" in time conflict "for the children of thy people."

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word Μιχαηλ appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 5 books.

13
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
13
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
5 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

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