Gabriel = GBR-AL"warrior of God" or "man of God" [strong number 1403]
1. an archangel; the angel God used to send messages of great importance to man; sent to Daniel, to Zacharias, and to Mary
From root GBR meaning:
1. to prevail, have strength, be strong, be powerful, be mighty, be great
a. (Qal)
1. to be strong, mighty
2. to prevail
b. (Piel) to make strong, strengthen
c. (Hiphil)
1. to confirm, give strength
2. to confirm (a covenant)
d. (Hithpael)
1. to show oneself mighty
2. to act proudly (toward God)
1. man, strong man, warrior (emphasising strength or ability to fight) [strong number 1388]
2. man, man (of uprightness) [Stong number 1399]
Michael = MYK-AL = Who is like God from:
MY = who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever + K [lprefix indicating likeness, similarity, comparison]
Uriel = AVR-AL"God (El) is my light" or "Flame [fire] of God" from:
AVR = flame, light of fire
Raphael = "healed of God" or God's healer or physician, from:
1. RFA= to heal, make healthful
a. (Qal) to heal
1. of God
2. healer, physician (of men)
3. of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig)
4. of individual distresses (fig)
b. (Niphal) to be healed
1. literal (of persons)
2. of water, pottery
3. of national hurts (fig)
4. of personal distress (fig)
c. (Piel) to heal
1. literal
2. of national defects or hurts (fig)
d. (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)
but RFA also root of:
ghosts of the dead, shades, spirits
dead, 3; departed spirits, 4; spirits of the dead, 1;
Suffix Al/el meaning:
1. god, god-like one, mighty one
a. mighty men, men of rank, mighty heroes
b. angels
c. god, false god, (demons, imaginations)
d. God, the one true God, Jehovah
2. mighty things in nature
3. strength, power
These archangel names are different to the 72 names of power or angelic names or names of god, called the ShemHaphoresh, derived from exodus.
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