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messiah |
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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