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Zaapiel

Zaapiel in Geoffrey W. Dennis’s encyclopedia: a destructive angel associated with wicked souls in Gehenna and with storms.

Yabbashael in the Jewish Encyclopedia: fourth among seven angel names formed from names of the earth and stationed in the second heaven.

Uzziel in Milton’s Paradise Lost: Gabriel’s next in power, assigned to lead the southern night watch over Paradise.

Uzza in the Jewish Encyclopedia’s report of a rabbinic atonement tradition naming Uzza and Azzael.

Soqedhozi in an excerpt of 3 Enoch reproduced by Grant Macaskill: weighing human merits in scales before the Holy One.

Sophia in the Orthodox Church in America’s account of the Novgorod icon: the winged Fiery Angel interpreted as Christ, the Wisdom of God.

Shoftiel in the Jewish Encyclopedia: Shofṭiel in a reported catalogue of seven punishment angels for seven departments.

Simiel in Stadler’s Heiligen-Lexikon: a name in Adalbert’s prayer and the lexicon’s report of the Roman synod of 745.

Sarakiel in Richard Laurence’s 1 Enoch 20:6: one of the holy angels who watches over the spirits of human transgressors.

Satan in Zechariah 3:1–2: the opposing figure standing at Joshua’s right hand and rebuked by the LORD in the prophetic vision.