mashiach · anointed

What it means

mashiach (מָשִׁיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “anointed”.

Someone on whom oil has been poured to set him apart for a task from God (priest, king). In Hebrew it is "mashiach", from which "Messiah" comes; in Greek, "Christ".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One God sets apart for his task; "Messiah" comes from it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• 1 Samuel×12
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×10
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Daniel×2
• Habakkuk×1

• Leviticus 4:3

  if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he shall present for his sin that he has sinned a young bull without defect to YHWH as a sin offering.

• Leviticus 4:5

  The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 4:16

  The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 6:22

  The anointed priest in his place from among his sons shall prepare it; it is a statute forever: to YHWH it shall be wholly offered up in smoke.

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  YHWH: those who contend with him will be shattered; against them he will thunder in the heavens. YHWH will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and lift high the horn of his anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 2:35

  And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest; he will act according to what is in my heart and in my soul; and I will build him a sure house, and he will walk before my anointed all the days.

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am; answer against me before YHWH and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited, whom have I crushed, or from the hand of whom have I taken compensation to cover my eyes with it? And I will return it to you.”

• 1 Samuel 12:5

  He said to them, “YHWH is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And he said, “Witness.”

• 1 Samuel 16:6

  And it came about, when they came, that he saw Eliab and said, “Surely before YHWH is his anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 24:6

  He said to his men, “Far be it from me, by YHWH, that I should do this thing to my lord, to the anointed of YHWH, to stretch out my hand against him, for he is the anointed of YHWH.”

• 1 Samuel 24:10

  Look, this day your eyes have seen how YHWH gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of YHWH.’

• 1 Samuel 26:9

  David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the anointed of YHWH and be without guilt?”

• 1 Samuel 26:11

  Far be it from me, by YHWH, to stretch out my hand against the anointed of YHWH! Now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go away.”

• 1 Samuel 26:16

  This thing that you have done is not good. As YHWH lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, over the anointed of YHWH. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

• 1 Samuel 26:23

  YHWH will repay each man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for YHWH gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against the anointed of YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 1:14

  David said to him, “How were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy YHWH’s anointed?”

• 2 Samuel 1:16

  David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I put to death YHWH’s anointed.’”

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew and no rain on you, nor fields of contributions; for there the shield of the mighty was abhorred, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

• 2 Samuel 19:21

  Abishai son of Zeruiah answered and said, “For this, shall not Shimei be put to death, because he cursed the anointed of YHWH?”

• 2 Samuel 22:51

  He is a tower of salvations for his king, and shows loyal love to his anointed, to David and to his offspring forever.”

• 2 Samuel 23:1

  These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, and the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the Elohim of Jacob, and the pleasant one in the psalms of Israel:

• 1 Chronicles 16:22

  ‘Do not touch my anointed ones, and to my prophets do no harm.’

• 2 Chronicles 6:42

  YHWH Elohim, do not turn back the face of your anointed one; remember the acts of loyal love of David your servant.”

• Psalms 2:2

  The kings of the earth take their stand, and the dignitaries conspire together against YHWH and against his anointed:

• Psalms 18:50

  He makes great the salvations of his king, and shows loyal love to his anointed, to David and to his offspring forever.”

• Psalms 20:6

  Now I know that YHWH has saved his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heavens with the mighty acts of the salvation of his right hand.

• Psalms 28:8

  YHWH is strength for them, and the stronghold of the salvations of his anointed is he.

• Psalms 84:9

  Our shield, see, Elohim, and look on the face of your anointed.

• Psalms 89:38

  But you have rejected and despised; you have become enraged with your anointed.

• Psalms 89:51

  with which your enemies have reproached, YHWH, with which they have reproached the footprints of your anointed.

• Psalms 105:15

  “Do not touch my anointed ones, and to my prophets do no harm.”

• Psalms 132:10

  For the sake of David your servant, do not turn back the face of your anointed one.

• Psalms 132:17

  There I will make sprout a horn for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.

• Isaiah 45:1

  Thus says YHWH to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom I have taken hold of by his right hand, to subdue before him nations, and the loins of kings I will loosen, to open before him doors, and gates will not be shut:

• Lamentations 4:20

  The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of YHWH, was caught in their pits, he of whom we said, “In his shadow we will live among the nations.”

• Daniel 9:25

  So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.

• Daniel 9:26

  And after the sixty and two weeks an Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of a leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place; and its end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

• Habakkuk 3:13

  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed; you shattered the head of the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation up to the neck. Selah.

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