Topic: Persons Of The Bible - Michael

The name "Michael" is from the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mika'el) which meant "who is like God?" Many persons with the name "Michael" appear in the Bible. Persons with the name "Michael" appear as follows:

• The title given to one of the chief angels (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1). One, or "the first, of the chief princes" or archangels, (Daniel 10:21) as the "prince" of Israel , and in ch. (Daniel 12:1) as "the great prince which standeth" in time conflict "for the children of thy people." He had special charge of Israel as a nation. He disputed with Satan (Jude 1:9) about the body of Moses. He is also represented as warning against "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world" (Rev. 12:7-9).
• An Asherite, father of Sethur, one of the twelve spies. (Numbers 13:13)
• One of the Gadites who settled in the land of Bashan . (1 Chronicles 5:13)
• Another Gadite, ancestor of Abihail. (1 Chronicles 5:14)
• A Gershionite Levite, ancestor of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 6:40)
• One of the five sons of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:3)
• A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:16)
• One of the captains of the "thousands" of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:20)
• The father or ancestor of Omri, chief of the tribe of Issachar in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:18)
• One of the sons of Jehoshaphat who were murdered by their elder brother, Jehoram. (2 Chronicles 21:2,4)
• The father or ancestor of Zebadiah, of the sons of Shephatiah. (Ezra 8:8)

Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries

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