Word Summary
Messias: Messiah, the O.T. title corresponding to Christ
Original Word: ΜεσσίαςTransliteration: Messias
Phonetic Spelling: (mes-see'-as)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Messiah, the O.T. title corresponding to Christ
Meaning: Messiah -- the Old Testament title corresponding to Christ
Strong's Concordance
the Messiah, Anointed One
Of Hebrew origin (mashiyach); the Messias (i.e. Mashiach), or Christ -- Messias.
see HEBREW mashiyach
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3323: ΜεσσίαςΜεσσίας,
Μεσσιου (cf.
Buttmann, 18 (16)),
ὁ,
Messiah; Chaldean
מְשִׁיחָא, Hebrew
מָשִׁיחַ, equivalent to Greek
Χριστός, which see:
John 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)