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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from...

Messiah = the Anointed One (ThNöldeke, ZDMG 32, 1878, 403; W-S. §5, 26c p. 57 note 54) in our lit. only twice, and in J: in the mouth of a disciple J 1:41 and of a Samaritan woman 4:25, in both cases translated by Χριστός, q.v.—BHHW II 1197–1204; ABD IV 777–88; Schürer II 488–54; HKippenberg, Garizim u. Synagoge ’71, on Messianic expectation 115f; JCharlesworth, ed., The Messiah, Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity ’92; IGrünewald et al., edd., Messiah and Christos, DFlusser Festschr.