Malachim

{{Short description|Alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century}}

{{hatnote|This article is about an alphabet. For another use, see Malachim (Hasidic group). It is not to be confused with Malakh (plural Malakhim).}}

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| type = Alphabet

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| name = Malachim

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| sample = Three Books of Occult Philosophy-Book III-Page 440.jpg

| alt = A page of a book showing a catalog of characters formed by dots and lines connecting them.

| caption = The Malachim Script, from Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy English 1651 edition

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| creator = Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

| date = 1510

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Malachim was an alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century.van der Poel, Marc. Cornelius Agrippa, the Humanist Theologian and His Declamations. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1997: {{ISBN|90-04-10756-8}} Other alphabets with a similar origin are the Celestial Alphabet{{cite web |title=Omniglot: Angelic Alphabet |url=https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/angelic.htm |publisher=Omniglot |access-date=3 May 2019}} and Transitus Fluvii.Gettings, Fred. "Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils." London; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. | {{ISBN|0-7100-0095-2}}

"Malachim" is a plural form from Hebrew (מלאך, mal'ach) and means "angels" or "messengers", see Angels in Judaism.