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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValamirCleaver" data-source="post: 9588461" data-attributes="member: 703">[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel[/URL]The Bible itself uses the term only two times, with no mention in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" target="_blank">Old Testament</a>, and does not mention a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_angels" target="_blank">hierarchy of angels</a> in any detail.Archangel is derived from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">Greek</a> archángelos (ἀρχάγγελος), with the Greek prefix <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arch-" target="_blank">arch</a>- meaning 'chief'.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arch-[/URL]<h3>Etymology</h3>From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" target="_blank">Middle English</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arch-#Middle_English" target="_blank">arch-</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arche-#Middle_English" target="_blank">arche-</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" target="_blank">Old English</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arce-#Old_English" target="_blank">arċe-</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A6rce-#Old_English" target="_blank">ærċe-</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erce-#Old_English" target="_blank">erċe-</a> (“arch-”), borrowed from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" target="_blank">Latin</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/archi-#Latin" target="_blank">archi-</a>, this stemming from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">Ancient Greek</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9-#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">ἀρχι-</a> (arkhi-).[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9-#Ancient_Greek[/URL]<h3>Etymology</h3>From <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%84%CF%81%CF%87%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">ἄρχω</a> (árkhō, “begin, rule”) or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%81%CF%87%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">ἀρχός</a> (arkhós, “leader”).[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanim[/URL]The ophanim (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" target="_blank">Hebrew</a>: אוֹפַנִּים ʼōp̄annīm, 'wheels'; singular: אוֹפָן ʼōp̄ān), alternatively spelled auphanim or ofanim, and also called galgalim (Hebrew: גַּלְגַּלִּים galgallīm, 'spheres, wheels, whirlwinds'; singular: גַּלְגַּל galgal), refer to the wheels seen in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel" target="_blank">Ezekiel</a>'s vision of the chariot (Hebrew <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah" target="_blank">merkabah</a>) in <a href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Ezekiel%201:15–21" target="_blank">Ezekiel 1:15–21</a>. One of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" target="_blank">Dead Sea Scrolls</a> (4Q405) construes them as angels; late sections of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch" target="_blank">Book of Enoch</a> (61:10, 71:7) portray them as a class of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven" target="_blank">celestial</a> beings who (along with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherubim" target="_blank">Cherubim</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim" target="_blank">Seraphim</a>) never sleep, but guard the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_God" target="_blank">throne of God</a>. In some systems of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_angelology" target="_blank">Christian angelology</a>, they are one of the choirs (classes) of angels, and are also identified as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_(angel)" target="_blank">Thrones</a>.These "wheels" have been associated with <a href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Daniel%207:9" target="_blank">Daniel 7:9</a> (mentioned as galgal, traditionally "the wheels of galgallin", in "fiery flame" and "burning fire") of the four, eye-covered wheels (each composed of two nested wheels), that move next to the winged Cherubim, beneath the throne of God. The four wheels move with the Cherubim because the spirit of the Cherubim is in them. The late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Book_of_Enoch" target="_blank">Second Book of Enoch</a> (20:1, 21:1) also referred to them as the "many-eyed ones".The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Book_of_Enoch" target="_blank">First Book of Enoch</a> (71.7) seems to imply that the Ophanim are equated to the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_(angel)" target="_blank">Thrones</a>" in Christianity when it lists them all together, in order: "...round about were Seraphim, Cherubim, and Ophanim".[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim[/URL]The Nephilim (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank">/ˈnɛfɪˌlɪm/</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" target="_blank">Hebrew</a>: נְפִילִים Nəfīlīm) are mysterious beings or humans in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" target="_blank">Bible</a> traditionally imagined as being of great size and strength, or alternatively beings of great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)" target="_blank">power</a> and authority. The origins of the Nephilim are disputed.  Some, including the author of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch" target="_blank">Book of Enoch</a>, view them as the offspring of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel" target="_blank">rebellious angels</a> and humans.Others view them as descendants of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth" target="_blank">Seth</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain" target="_blank">Cain</a>.This reference to them is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis#Primeval_history_(chapters_1–11)" target="_blank">Genesis 6:1–4</a>, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Numbers" target="_blank">Numbers</a> 13:33, ten of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Spies" target="_blank">Twelve Spies</a> report the existence of Nephilim in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan" target="_blank">Canaan</a> prior to its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua#Entry_into_the_land_and_conquest_(chapters_2–12)" target="_blank">conquest by the Israelites</a>.A similar or identical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew" target="_blank">Biblical Hebrew</a> term, read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen" by others, appears in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ezekiel" target="_blank">Ezekiel</a> 32:27 and is also mentioned in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books" target="_blank">deuterocanonical books</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith" target="_blank">Judith</a> 16:6, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirach" target="_blank">Sirach</a> 16:7, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Baruch" target="_blank">Baruch</a> 3:26–28, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_Solomon" target="_blank">Wisdom</a> 14:6.</blockquote>

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