천사 are spiritual beings often depicted as messengers of God in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles along with the Quran. The English word 앤젤 is derived from the Greek ἄγγελος, a translation of מלאך (mal'akh) in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh); a similar term, ملائكة (Malāīkah), is used in the Qur'an. The Hebrew and Greek words originally mean messenger, and depending on the context may refer either to a human messenger (possibly a prophet 또는 priest, such as Malachi, "my messenger", but also for 더 많이 mundane characters, as in the Greek superscription that the Book of Malachi...
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