Topic
Messenger
18 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Haggai 1:13ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE
Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
- Malachi 2:7ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
- Malachi 3:1ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Genesis 50:16ISBE
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
- 1 Samuel 4:17ISBE
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
- 1 Samuel 11:7Easton
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD…
- 2 Kings 9:18Easton
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
- 2 Chronicles 36:22Easton
¶ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it…
- Job 1:14Easton
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
- Job 33:23ISBE
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
- Malachi 4:5Nave FIGURATIVE
¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
- Malachi 4:6Nave FIGURATIVE
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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- Matthew 11:10 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Mark 1:2 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Luke 7:27 Nave FIGURATIVE
- 2 Corinthians 8:23 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of Satan
- Philippians 2:25 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
(Heb. mal’ak, Gr. angelos), an angel, a messenger who runs on foot, the bearer of despatches (Job 1:14; 1 Sam. 11:7; 2 Chr. 36:22); swift of foot (2 Kings 9:18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
mes'-en-jer: The regular Hebrew word for "messenger" is mal'akh, the Greek aggelos. This may be a human messenger or a messenger of God, an angel. The context must decide the right translation. In Hag 1:13 the prophet is called God's messenger; Job 33:23 changes the King James Version to "angel" (margin "messenger"); and Mal 3:1 margin, suggests "angel" instead of "messenger." Mal 2:7 and Mal 3:1 (twice) have caused a great deal of comment. See MALACHI. The Greek apostolos, "apostle," is rendered "messenger" in 2Co 8:23; Php 2:25; 1Sa 4:17 translations literally, from Hebrew basar, "to tell good news," "he that brought the tidings." Ge 50:16 reads "message" instead of "messenger."
A. L. Breslich
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.