(Heb mal'ak, Gr. angelos), an angel, a messenger who runs on foot, the bearer of despatches (Job 1:14; 1Sa 11:7; 2Ch 36:22); swift of foot (2Ki 9:18).
So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me." And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return."
a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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