what does the angel gabriel's name mean
Gabriel Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל‎, lit. 'Gavri'el "God is my strength"', Ancient Greek: Ⲅαβριήλ, lit. 'Gabriel', Coptic: ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ); in the Abrahamic religions, is an archangel who typically serves as God's messenger.
Destroying angel (Bible) The Destroying Angel or Angel of Death in the Hebrew Bible is an entity sent out by Yahweh on several occasions to kill enemies of the Israelites. In 2 Samuel 24:15, it kills the inhabitants of Jerusalem. In I Chronicles 21:15, the same "angel of the Lord" is seen by David to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out against Jerusalem." Later, the angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men of Sennacherib's Assyrian army, thereby saving Hezekiah's Jerusalem in II Kings 19:35.