Michael
(Μιχαήλ), Hebrew personal name (lit. “who is like God”).It occurs in the Old Testament as a common name, but in the New Testament only twice—for the archangel. Unknown in Greek and Roman antiquity, the name appeared in the second half of the 5th C. (... ...
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