What do angels look like?


Angels are spirit beings, but when they do appear they seem to appear as humans. In Zechariah 5:12, two angels appear as women:


Throughout the rest of Scripture, angels usually appear as men. For example:


Some accounts in the Bible show angels with unusual feature where there is an appearance of intense light. The prophet Daniel saw an angel with arms and legs made of what appeared to be like precious stones and a burnished bronze color and a face like lightening:


In the book of Revelation some unusual beings are described, they could be angels of some sort:


"Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to come!"

As spirit beings, angels can be invisible:

"But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, "Send them!" Therefore they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him." (2 Kings 2:17).
