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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Messiah  \Mes*si"ah\,  n.  [Heb.  m[=a]sh[=i]akh  anointed,  fr 
  m[=a]shakh  to  anoint.  Cf  {Messias}.] 
  The  expected  king  and  deliverer  of  the  Hebrews;  the  Savior; 
  Christ. 
 
  And  told  them  the  Messiah  now  was  born.  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ghost  dance  \Ghost  dance\ 
  A  religious  dance  of  the  North  American  Indians,  participated 
  in  by  both  sexes,  and  looked  upon  as  a  rite  of  invocation  the 
  purpose  of  which  is  through  trance  and  vision,  to  bring  the 
  dancer  into  communion  with  the  unseen  world  and  the  spirits 
  of  departed  friends.  The  dance  is  the  chief  rite  of  the 
 
  {Ghost-dance},  or 
 
  {Messiah}, 
 
  {religion},  which  originated  about  1890  in  the  doctrines  of 
  the  Piute  Wovoka  the  Indian  Messiah,  who  taught  that  the 
  time  was  drawing  near  when  the  whole  Indian  race,  the  dead 
  with  the  living,  should  be  reunited  to  live  a  life  of 
  millennial  happiness  upon  a  regenerated  earth.  The 
  religion  inculcates  peace,  righteousness,  and  work  and 
  holds  that  in  good  time,  without  warlike  intervention,  the 
  oppressive  white  rule  will  be  removed  by  the  higher 
  powers.  The  religion  spread  through  a  majority  of  the 
  western  tribes  of  the  United  States,  only  in  the  case  of 
  the  Sioux,  owing  to  local  causes,  leading  to  an  outbreak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  messiah 
  n  1:  any  expected  deliverer  [syn:  {christ}] 
  2:  Jesus  Christ;  considered  by  Christians  to  be  the  promised 
  deliverer  [syn:  {Messiah}] 
  3:  the  awaited  King  of  the  Jews;  the  promised  and  expected 
  deliverer  of  the  Jewish  people  [syn:  {Messiah}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Messiah 
  (Heb.  mashiah),  in  all  the  thirty-nine  instances  of  its 
  occurring  in  the  Old  Testament,  is  rendered  by  the  LXX. 
  "Christos."  It  means  anointed.  Thus  priests  (Ex.  28:41;  40:15; 
  Num.  3:3),  prophets  (1  Kings  19:16),  and  kings  (1  Sam.  9:16; 
  16:3;  2  Sam.  12:7)  were  anointed  with  oil,  and  so  consecrated  to 
  their  respective  offices.  The  great  Messiah  is  anointed  "above 
  his  fellows"  (Ps.  45:7);  i.e.,  he  embraces  in  himself  all  the 
  three  offices.  The  Greek  form  Messias"  is  only  twice  used  in 
  the  New  Testament,  in  John  1:41  and  4:25  (R.V.,  "Messiah"),  and 
  in  the  Old  Testament  the  word  Messiah,  as  the  rendering  of  the 
  Hebrew,  occurs  only  twice  (Dan  9:25,  26;  R.V.,  "the  anointed 
  one"). 
 
  The  first  great  promise  (Gen.  3:15)  contains  in  it  the  germ  of 
  all  the  prophecies  recorded  in  the  Old  Testament  regarding  the 
  coming  of  the  Messiah  and  the  great  work  he  was  to  accomplish  on 
  earth.  The  prophecies  became  more  definite  and  fuller  as  the 
  ages  rolled  on  the  light  shone  more  and  more  unto  the  perfect 
  day  Different  periods  of  prophetic  revelation  have  been  pointed 
  out  (1)  the  patriarchal;  (2)  the  Mosaic;  (3)  the  period  of 
  David;  (4)  the  period  of  prophetism  i.e.,  of  those  prophets 
  whose  works  form  a  part  of  the  Old  Testament  canon.  The 
  expectations  of  the  Jews  were  thus  kept  alive  from  generation  to 
  generation,  till  the  "fulness  of  the  times,"  when  Messiah  came 
  "made  of  a  woman,  made  under  the  law,  to  redeem  them  that  were 
  under  the  law."  In  him  all  these  ancient  prophecies  have  their 
  fulfilment.  Jesus  of  Nazareth  is  the  Messiah,  the  great 
  Deliverer  who  was  to  come  (Comp.  Matt.  26:54;  Mark  9:12;  Luke 
  18:31;  22:37;  John  5:39;  Acts  2;  16:31;  26:22,  23.) 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Messiah,  anointed 
 




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