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Messiah

Excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary, the most advanced Bible dictionary.

Rendered into Greek as Χριστός (Christos), cognate to the verb χρίω (chriō, “to anoint”). In this sense, it is essentially the same to say that Jesus is the “Messiah,” or the “Christ.” In contemporary Bible translations, the former is sometimes used when the term is functioning as a title (the Messiah) and the latter when the term is functioning as a name (i.e. Jesus Christ).

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The Lexham Bible Dictionary

Messiah

Messiah (מָשִׁיַח‎, mashiyach; “anointed” or “an anointed one”; “messiah”). Rendered into Greek as Χριστός (Christos), cognate to the verb χρίω (chriō, “to anoint”). In this sense, it is essentially the same to say that Jesus is the “Messiah,” or the “Christ.” In contemporary Bible translations, the former

Messiah, Critical Issues

Messiah, Critical Issues (מָשִׁיַח‎, mashiyach, Χριστός, Christos). Explores the notion of the Messiah in Christian and Jewish communities after the rise of Christianity.

The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary

Messiah

MESSIAH. The term going back to Messias, a Gk form (John 1:41; 4:25) of the Heb māšı̂ah, denoting an anointed person. Hebrew hammāšı̂aḥ (Aram mĕšı̂ḥāʾ), “the Messiah,” is usually translated in Gk with ho christos, the Christ.Because a central tenet of Christianity has always been the conviction

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible

Messiah

Messiah. Title derived from the Hebrew, mashiach, a verbal adjective meaning anointed one. Along with its NT equivalent, christos (Christ), it refers to an act of consecration whereby an individual is set apart to serve God and anointed (smeared or perhaps sprinkled) with oil. The verbal root (mashach)

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised

Tyndale Bible Dictionary

Messiah

MESSIAH Title derived from the Hebrew, mashiach, a verbal adjective meaning “anointed one.” Along with its NT equivalent, christos (Christ), it refers to an act of consecration whereby an individual is set apart to serve God and then anointed with oil. The verbal root (mashach) conveys this idea as well.

The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (Revised and Updated)

Messiah

messiah (muh-si´uh; from Heb. mashiakh, “anointed one”), an anointed agent of God appointed to a task affecting the lot of God’s elect.Early Usage: Though the Hebrew verb mashakh was often used of the anointing of men as kings over Israel (e.g., Saul, 1 Sam. 9:16; David, 2 Sam. 2:4, 7; Ps. 89:20; Solomon,

The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia

Messiah

MESSIAH. The word “Messiah” as a transliteration of the Heb. word māshı̂ach comes through the Aram. māshı̂chā and the Gr. messías. Its Heb. source is found in the verb māshach; “to anoint,” and is most often translated in English versions as “the anointed.” In the KJV “Messiah” as a transliteration

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible

Messiah

MessiahThe word “Messiah” is an adjectival form with a passive sense derived from the Hebrew verb meaning “to anoint.” It can be used adjectivally (“the anointed priest”; Lev. 4:3), though its most common form is nominal (Heb. māšɩ̂aḥ). In the 30 occurrences of the term in the OT, there is no single

Eerdmans Bible Dictionary

Messiah

Messiah [mə sīˊə] (Gk. Messías; from Heb. māšîaḥ “anointed [one]”).† God’s anointed king; in the Old Testament specifically the expected Jewish Messiah, in the New Testament Jesus Christ.In its basic sense the term “messiah” refers to a person who has been consecrated to a high office by

Catholic Bible Dictionary

Messiah

MESSIAH The “anointed one,” the Redeemer who is spoken of by the prophets of the Old Testament and whose mission is to bring salvation to Israel and the whole world. In the OT, the term “anointed one”—from which we get the English words “Messiah” (Hebrew māšîaḥ) and “Christ” (Greek christos)—was

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Messiah

Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ, lit. ‘anointed’). The term denotes a person invested by God with special powers and functions. It was rendered into Greek by χριστός (from χρίω, ‘anoint’), from which the title ‘*Christ’ derives.In the OT the term could be applied to anyone set apart for any special function,

Key passages

Da 9:24–27

“Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city, to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy …

Jn 1:41

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated “Christ”).

Jn 4:25–26

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.

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