angels

Japanese: angelos
angels

…It refers to a purely spiritual entity created as a being superior to humans. The Western word comes from the Greek word angelos, which means "messenger." Its origin is the "messenger of the Lord (God)" that appears frequently in the Old and New Testaments, and in Hebrew it is called mal'āḵ.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "angelos" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人間よりも上位の存在として創造された純粋に精神的な実体をいう。西欧語は〈使者〉を意味するギリシア語angelosに由来する。その起源は旧約および新約聖書にしばしば登場する〈主(神)の使い〉であり,ヘブライ語ではmal’āḵという。…

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