Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The anticipated savior of the Jews. Used with the.
- noun Christianity Jesus. Used with the.
- noun One who is anticipated as, regarded as, or professes to be a savior or liberator.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A designation of Jesus as the Saviour of the world; the Hebrew equivalent of Christ, the Anointed, but used more frequently as a descriptive title (the Messiah) than as a name: from prophetic passages in the Hebrew Scriptures (where, except in two instances in Daniel, it is translated Anointed, often as a noun) interpreted by Jesus and by Christians as referring to him and universal in scope, but regarded by the Jews as promising a divinely sent deliverer for their own race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Christianity
Jesus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
- noun any expected deliverer
- noun Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer
- noun the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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•Messiah 71, Alvernia 60: At Grantham, Messiah closed the second half with a 20-10 run to knock off Alvernia in a Commonwealth Conference game.
Berks county news 2010
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•Messiah 71, Alvernia 60: At Grantham, Messiah closed the second half with a 20-10 run to knock off Alvernia in a Commonwealth Conference game.
Berks county news 2010
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The word Messiah isnt in the Old Testamentjust the Hebrew word for anointed.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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Herein Messiah is represented a just Judge and Ruler (De 1: 16, 17). reprove -- "decide," as the parallelism shows. after ... ears -- by mere plausible hearsays, but by the true merits of each case (Joh 6: 64; Re 2: 23).
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But while the term Messiah is specific to only a few religions, prophecies that a leader will come and accomplish such a mission are nearly universal.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Arthur Conan Doyle 2009
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But while the term Messiah is specific to only a few religions, prophecies that a leader will come and accomplish such a mission are nearly universal.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Urantia 2009
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But while the term Messiah is specific to only a few religions, prophecies that a leader will come and accomplish such a mission are nearly universal.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Ordo Templi Orientis 2009
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But while the term Messiah is specific to only a few religions, prophecies that a leader will come and accomplish such a mission are nearly universal.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Philosophers - Plato 2009
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But while the term Messiah is specific to only a few religions, prophecies that a leader will come and accomplish such a mission are nearly universal.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Films and TV 2009
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But while the term Messiah is specific to only a few religions, prophecies that a leader will come and accomplish such a mission are nearly universal.
The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - The Veil of Isis 2009
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