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For years, Vine’s Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople, selling millions of copies. But sixty-plus years of scholarship has shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, whose Greek grammar has been used by more than 100,000...

Old Testament Noun: מַלְאָךְ (malʾāk), GK 4855 (S 4397) 213×. Like angelos in the NT, there are two primary uses of malʾāk in the OT: “messenger” and “angel” (see angel). These two uses are divided about evenly in the OT. malʾāk can simply designate a messenger or ambassador in human affairs who speaks and acts in the place of the one who has sent him. “The messengers returned to Jacob” with word about Esau (Gen. 32:6). “Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom” (Num. 20:14).
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