Definition

a chief angel

Etymology

from G757 (ἄρχω) and G32 (ἄγγελος);

Word family

• ἄρχω árchō
• ἄγγελος ángelos

How the KJV renders it

• archangel

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.