messenger
noun (a messenger, messengers)
Everyday
- A person who carries a message, letter or parcel from one person or place to another. tree →
- An app or service for sending text messages. tree →
- (science) A substance in the body that carries signals, such as a hormone. tree →
In the lessons
In history and stories, messengers ran or rode horses to carry news. In everyday life people send messages on «Messenger» apps. Saying: «Don't shoot the messenger» means don't blame the person who brings bad news. Phrases: send a messenger, bike messenger, messenger bag.
Examples
- The king sent a messenger with a letter. tree →
- The messenger rode through the night. tree →
- Don't shoot the messenger — I'm only telling you what Mum said! tree →
- A bike messenger delivered the parcel. tree →
- I sent Gran a photo on the messenger app. tree →
- Hormones are chemical messengers in the body. tree →
- The teacher made me the messenger to the office. tree →
- Pigeons were once used as messengers. tree →
- This is a messenger from Heaven. tree →
Note
Countable: messengers. Note the «n» before «-ger»: messeNGer, not «messager». Related: message, message (verb, informal: «message me»).
In Jewish tradition
The Hebrew word for messenger can also mean angel. In the Prophets and Psalms a messenger may be a human carrier of news, a prophet, or even the winds that God sends.
Interpretation. The Hebrew word for messenger can also mean angel. Jacob's "messengers" to Esau are sometimes understood by the rabbis as angels. The verse "Who makest winds Thy messengers" is read as saying that God uses the forces of nature as His angels.
Examples
- And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying: (Torah NUM.21.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom. (Torah GEN.32.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying: (Torah NUM.24.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the messengers returned, and told the king. (Prophets 2KI.7.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Or deaf, as My messenger that I send? (Prophets ISA.42.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Who makest winds Thy messengers, the flaming fire Thy ministers. (Writings PSA.104.4, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
Countable: messengers. Note the «n» before «-ger»: messeNGer, not «messager». Related: message, message (verb, informal: «message me»).
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «messenger» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «messenger» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «messenger» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «messenger» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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