Strong's Number 743

Transliteration:

archaggelos {ar-khang'-el-os}

Word Origin:

from 757 and 32

TDNT:

1:87,12

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Usage in the KJV:

archangel 2

Total: 2

Definition:

archangel, or chief of the angels The Jews, after the exile, distinguished several orders of angels; some reckoned four angels (according to the four sides of God's throne) of the highest rank; but the majority reckoned seven (after the pattern of the seven Amshaspands, the highest spirits of the religion of Zoroaster)