Crossword clues for malachi
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, Old Testament name of the last in order of the Twelve Prophets, from Hebrew Mal'akhi, literally "my messenger," from mal'akh "messenger," from Semitic base l-'-k (compare Arabic la'aka "he sent").
Wikipedia
Malachi, Malachias, Malache or Mal'achi (; ) was the writer of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Neviim (prophets) section in the Hebrew Bible. No allusion is made to him by Ezra, however, and he does not directly mention the restoration of the temple. The editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia implied that he prophesied after Haggai and Zechariah (; , ) and speculated that he delivered his prophecies about 420 BCE, after the second return of Nehemiah from Persia ( Book of Nehemiah), or possibly before his return, comparing with ( with ).
In the Christian Greek Old Testament, the Prophetic Books are placed last, making Book of Malachi the last protocanonical book before the Deuterocanonical books or The New Testament. According to the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, it is possible that Malachi is not a proper name, but simply means "messenger of YHWH". The Greek Old Testament superscription is ἐν χειρὶ ἀγγέλου αὐτοῦ, (by the hand of his messenger).
Malachi was a Jewish prophet in the Hebrew Bible.
Malachi or Malachy may also refer to:
Malachi is the eponymous debut album released by Fame Academy contestant Malachi Cush. The album was released on 24 March 2003 and features his debut single " Just Say You Love Me", along with some cover versions that he performed on Fame Academy. The album reached number 17 in the UK Album Chart in April 2003.
Malachi or Malachai is the given name of:
- Malachi, Jewish prophet in the Bible
- Malachi ben Jacob HaKohen (1695/70?–1772), Talmudist, methodologist and Kaballist
- Malachi Bogdanov, British theatre director
- Malachi Curran, politician in Northern Ireland
- Malachi Cush (born 1980), Northern Irish singer/songwriter
- Malachi Davis (born 1977), American sprinter
- Malachi Dupre, American football player
- Malachi Favors (1927–2004), American jazz bassist
- Malachi Jones (born 1989), Bermudian cricketer
- Malachi Jones (clergyman) (c.1651–1729), Anglo-Welsh clergyman and missionary
- Malachi Kittridge (1869-1928), American Major League Baseball catcher
- Malachi Leo Elliott (1886–1967), American architect
- Malachi Martin (1921–1999), Catholic priest, writer and commentator
- Malachi Martin (Australian murderer) (c.1831–1862)
- Malachi O'Doherty (born 1951), journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland
- Malachi Ritscher (1954–2006), American human rights and anti-war activist and musician
- Malachi Thompson (1949–2006), American jazz trumpet player
- Malachi Throne (1928-2013), American actor
- Malachi Malasgrowther, a pseudonym used by writer Walter Scott in a series of letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal
- Prince Malachi (born Mark Wynter in 1969), English reggae singer
Usage examples of "malachi".
What this Monroney guy was offering was the first sensible proposition Malachi had seen since coming to this crazy country, an dover the next two and a half years, Malachi made more money than he had ever dreamed of making in ten careers in the Army--in cash, nice, green, untaxable cash, complete with accommodating Chinese bankers in Cholon who could move things around a network of extremely discreet banks all over the world.
O, for the third day in a row, Malachi Ward sat in the darkened Ford, watching the entrance to the apartment building perched above the E Street Expressway viaduct.
In his current line of work, Malachi would let people discover his hands as part of the process of intimidation.
Where some men talked tough, Malachi could project tough with a steady stare and his physical presence.
Her face had an intensely black, smooth complexion, high, arching eyebrows, slightly slanted brown eyes, and features that Malachi would have called more white than African.
Out in the hallway, Malachi tightened the suit coat around his forearm, wiggled his way into the raincoat, and headed for the stairway.
Not expecting a woman to pull a knife: For Malachi, that was incredible.
The captain called back twenty minutes later, and Malachi let him talk to the machine again.
Late that afternoon, Malachi caught the Metro to the Ballston station in Virginia, walked over to Quincy Street, giving the Randolph Towers a passing mental salute as he walked by, and entered the library.
The captain was in his early fifties and looked to Malachi like a middlingly prosperous banker, except for the blues and the stripes.
Saigon and Malachi had been a first lieutenant in the military police at Tan Son Nhut air base.
For the past eight years, Malachi had done odd jobs for the AA when his boss took one of his not-infrequent walks on the wild side.
Army, Retired, had already been in the business when Malachi got out of the Army, and he had showed him the ropes.
Life on a succession of Army posts as a kid had taught Malachi that there were two very clearly denned strata of people in the army: the officers and the enlisted.
But Malachi, with no other prospects, had enlisted in the Army Reserves one month after graduating from Wilson High in Northwest D.