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Gabriel - What does it mean?

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gabriel

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
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  • * 1629 , , 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 , , 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.
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  • 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.
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  • And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
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