Gabriel
Origin
From Latin Gabriel, from Ancient Greek ΓαβÏιήλ, from Hebrew גברי×ל (Gavrie’l, "man of God"), from גֶּבֶר (géver, "man") and ×ֵל (el, "God").
Full definition of Gabriel
Proper noun
Gabriel
(plural Gabriels)- .
- 1629, Thomas Adams (clergyman), Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
- 1986, Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament, Viking (1987), ISBN 0670816566, page 20:"I'm the only Gabriel in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.
- An archangel associated, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
- Authorized Version|Daniel|9|21:Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- Authorized Version|Luke|1|26:And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,