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The Angel of the Lord (or the Angel of God, God manifested in human form) is one of many terms in the Hebrew Bible (also: Old Testament) used for an angel.

The Biblical name for angel, מלאך malak, which translates simply as "messenger," obtained the further signification of "angel" only through the addition of God's name, as ("angel of the Lord," or "angel of God", Zech. 12-vs-8).

In the Hebrew Bible the noun malak "messenger" is used 214 times, of which approximately (according to translations in the King James Version) 103 times concern human messengers and 111 times concern heavenly messengers.^[1]

The term "מַלְאָךְ יהוה" (malak YHWH), Hebrew for "messenger of Yahweh", in the King James Version "angel of the Lord", occurs 65 times and always in the singular. In English translation.

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Appearances of the "angel of the Lord" are often presented in many ways in (Genesis 31-vs-11–13 the angel of God says, "I am the God of Beth-el"; in (Exodus 3-vs-2–6) the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in the flame of fire, and then the Lord says to him: "I am the God of thy father"; compare (Genesis 22-vs-11); Gideon(Judges 6-vs-11–22). At times the angel of the Lord speaks in such a way as to assume authority over previous promises ( Gen. 16-vs-11 and 21-vs-7).

The following are examples of use of the term "angel of the Lord"

• (Genesis 16-vs-7–14). The angel of the Lord appears to Hagar. The angel speaks as God in the first person, and in verse 13 Hagar identifies "the LORD that spake unto her" as "Thou God seest me".
• Genesis 22:11–15. The angel of the Lord appears to Abraham and refers to God in the first person.
• Exodus 3:2–4. The angel of the Lord appears to Moses in a flame in verse 2, and God speaks to Moses from the flame in verse 4.
• Numbers 22:22–38. The angel of the Lord meets the prophet Balaam on the road. In verse 38, Balaam identifies the angel who spoke to him as delivering the word of God.
• Judges 2:1–3. The angel of the Lord appears to Israel.
• Judges 6:11–23. The angel of the Lord appears to Gideon, and in verse 22 Gideon fears for his life because he was in the presence of God.
• Judges 13:3–22. The angel of the Lord appears to Manoah and his wife. In verse 16, differentiates himself from God. ("And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah. . .if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord.")
• The ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint translates the phrase as ἄγγελος Κυρίου, aggelos Kyriou, "angel of the Lord", a phrase used also in the New Testament. The Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo identified the angel of the Lord (in the singular) with the Logos word.

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  The term "angel of God" (Heb. mal'akh 'Elohim) occurs 12 times (2 of which are plural). The following are examples:

  • Genesis 31:11. The angel of God calls out to Jacob in a dream and tells him "I am the God of Bethel".
  • Exodus 14:19. The angel of God leads the camp of Israel, and also follows behind them, with the pillar of fire.
  • Judges 13:9. The angel of God approached the wife of Manoah after the Lord heard Manoah.

  The following are examples of God "sending an angel":

  • Exodus 23:20-21. The LORD says he will send an Angel before the Israelites, and warns them to obey the Angel's voice, and that the Angel "will not pardon transgressions" because the LORD's "name is in him".
  • Exodus 33:2. God says he will send an angel before the Israelites, and that God will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • Numbers 20:16. The LORD sent an angel and brought the people of Israel forth from Egypt.
  • 1 Chronicles 21:15. God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but then repented and told the angel to stay his hand.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:21. The LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria.

  Similar expressions are "the redeeming angel", המלאך הגאל, hamalak haggoel (Gen 48:16); "the angel of his (the Lord's) presence", מלאך פניו, malak panaiv (Isaiah 63:9); "the angel of the covenant", מלאך הברית, malakh habrit (Malachi 3:1); and in the Septuagint "Angel (or Messenger) of Great Counsel", μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγελος,megalēs boulēs angelos (Isaiah 9:6).
  

• Most Eastern Fathers followed the line of thought that the "Angel of the Lord" was "the Word of God", (Jesus Christ) who was "foreshadowing the sublime character in which He is one day to reveal Himself to men. and that his appearances in the Old Testament were preludes to the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.
• The angel of the Lord wrestle with Jacob all night long in(Gen 32-vs-22-32)

• That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

  But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

  27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”

  “Jacob,” he answered.

  28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

  29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

  But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

  30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

  31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

• Even the Angel of the Lord, was in the flaming fire with the 3 Hebrew brothers(Dan 3-vs-24-27)
• Many more examples on the Angel of the Lord in the Bible, always know that you can have a visitation from the Angel of the Lord at any time.
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