Enochian

The messenger. The angel who explains Daniel's visions, announces two births in Luke, and in Islam delivers the entire Qur'an.

The warring archangel: prince of Israel in Daniel, captain of the host in Revelation, and the only angel the New Testament calls an archangel outright.

The offspring of the sons of God and the daughters of men, given two verses in Genesis and a full history in 1 Enoch — the corpus's clearest case of a silence in scripture being filled in elsewhere.

The healer, whose name means 'God heals'. He spends the Book of Tobit disguised as a human travelling companion, which makes it the longest sustained portrait of an angel anywhere in the biblical corpus.

The scapegoat's destination in Leviticus, and the Watcher who taught weapons and cosmetics in 1 Enoch. Translators cannot even agree whether the word is a name, a place or an abstraction.

The seven who present the prayers of the saints — a group named as a body in Tobit and Revelation before any list of individual names settled.

'Fire of God' — the archangel of the fourth seat, never named in the canonical Bible, and formally struck from the approved list by a Roman synod in 745.

Of the thirteen chiefs of tens, his is the only name that reaches English in a single form — the rest arrive with two spellings or three. What does not arrive at all is any account of what he did after the descent.

Stands second among the leaders, immediately after Semjaza, and the text never returns to him. His name travels worse than any other Watcher's: Arâkîba where Charles translates the Ethiopic, Urakabarameel in the witnesses behind the Greek — barely recognisable as the same word.

One of the two hundred Watchers who descended in 1 Enoch. He taught the signs of the earth, which is to say geomancy.

Taught how to break enchantments — the counter-spell to Semjaza's spell, and the only Watcher whose art is purely defensive.

Taught astrology; his name means 'lightning of God'.

Batârêl in Charles, Batraal in the lists that reached English through Greek. Under either spelling he swears the oath on Hermon and does nothing further that the text records.

Three unrelated figures carry this name — a Ugaritic king, the biblical prophet, and this Watcher — and only the coincidence connects them. 1 Enoch records his oath and nothing he taught.

Meteorology is on the charge sheet. He taught men to read the clouds, and 1 Enoch files that beside metalwork and astrology as one of the crimes that brought the flood.

1 Enoch names him rather than the serpent as the one who led Eve astray, and credits him with inventing weapons besides.

His entire biography as a Watcher is one act: binding himself by the oath on Hermon in 1 Enoch alongside the other chiefs. Yomiel is what the name becomes once the diacritics are dropped, and it is no better attested than the original.

Taught the smitings of the spirits and the demons, and the striking of the embryo in the womb.

Taught the constellations — astrology as one of the forbidden arts brought down at the descent.

Taught humanity to write — which 1 Enoch treats as one of the gravest of the transmitted sins.

The archangel who takes vengeance on the world of the lights — and one of those condemned by name at the Roman synod of 745.

Shares a name with Remiel, one of the holy archangels — a collision 1 Enoch keeps apart and later lists do not, which is how the same figure ends up filed on both sides of the rebellion.

Set over those who rise — the archangel of the resurrection and of true visions.

Holds the sun's share of a three-way division of the sky, with Sariel on the moon and Kokabel on the stars. What 1 Enoch condemns is not what the signs foretold but that he explained them at all.

One of the seven archangels of 1 Enoch, set over the spirits who sin against the spirit. Canonical scripture never names him.

Only nine of the leaders named in 1 Enoch 6:7 are given a teaching in chapter 8, and he is not among the nine. He is recorded as Satarêl and as Sartael, and silent under both.

The Watcher who proposed the descent and bound the other two hundred to it by mutual oath on Mount Hermon.

Later tradition made him a teacher of astronomy. 1 Enoch does not: it gives him an oath, a rank over ten of the two hundred, and no art at all. The astronomy is an inheritance from somewhere else.

No teaching, no punishment, no later appearance: of the Watchers named in 1 Enoch he is among the emptiest entries. He binds himself by the oath and leaves the narrative there — the fate of most of the twenty, and of none of the ones anybody remembers.

The two forms his name reaches English in, Zaqîêl and Sathiel, have almost nothing in common but the ending — the -el that marks him as one of God's, and that survives in these names long after everything else about them has been lost. Neither form is given a teaching.