In Judaism, angels (known as mal'akh in Hebrew, literally meaning "messenger") are supernatural beings that appear throughout the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, and traditional Jewish liturgy as agents of the God of Israel.
The term Mal'akh means "the one who is sent," often translated as "messenger" when applied to humans; for instance, Mal'akh is the root of the name of the prophet Malachi, whose name means "my messenger." In modern Hebrew, mal'akh is the general word for "angel."
