Bible Person
Meaning: who is like to God · Male · 5 cross references
Michael is the chief angel associated with Israel, spiritual conflict, and heavenly warfare in Daniel, Jude, and Revelation. This entry represents an angelic being rather than a human figure. First appears in Dan 10:13.1
AI summary: Michael matters because the cross references present him as one of the Bible's clearest figures of heavenly guardianship and conflict. He appears in relation to Israel's destiny, disputes with the devil, and leads war against the dragon, which gives him a distinctive place in the scriptural portrayal of spiritual reality. His role is protective, martial, and cosmic. Taken together, the material presents Michael as a chief angel whose actions reveal the unseen dimension of God's warfare and protection.1
Central Figure
Michael
Meaning: who is like to God
The title given to one of the chief angels (Dan.
The title given to one of the chief angels (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1). 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). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.