Word

Μεσσίας

Messías · G3323 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

Christ or Messiah, literally one who has been anointed

A title for Jesus as the Messiah, which in many contexts, especially without an article, becomes part of the name of Jesus

Examples
John 1:41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).
John 4:25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰμίto be 1
λέγωto say 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔρχομαιto come 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Christ, Messiah53.82: This lexeme is the transliterated Hebrew/Aramaic title for the Anointed One. John 1:41 records Andrew telling Simon, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Μεσσιου (cf. Buttmann, 18 (16)), ὁ, Messiah; Chaldean מְשִׁיחָא, Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ,…

Μεσσιου (cf. Buttmann, 18 (16)), ὁ, Messiah; Chaldean מְשִׁיחָא, Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, equivalent to Greek Χριστός, which see: Jn 1:41 (); . Cf. Delitzsch in the Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol., 1876, p. 603; (Lagarde, Psalt. vers. Memphit., 1875, p. vii. On the general subject see especially Abbot's supplement to article Messiah in B. D. American edition and references added by Orelli (cf. Schaff-Herzog) in Herzog 2 under the word to Oehler's article)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Roles and Functions2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0