1. Christ, Messiah, Anointed One — The substantivized adjective Christos used as a title and proper name for Jesus of Nazareth, translating Hebrew mashiach ('anointed one'). With 540 occurrences across the NT, this is by far the most frequent christological designation. It functions both as a title ('the Christ/Messiah,' especially in the Gospels and Acts where messianic identity is under discussion) and as a virtual proper name ('Christ' or in the compound 'Jesus Christ / Christ Jesus,' dominant in the Pauline epistles). All multilingual signatures converge consistently: Arabic 'al-masih,' Hebrew 'mashiach,' Korean 'geurisdo,' Hindi 'masih,' German 'Christus,' Spanish 'Christos,' French 'Christ.' The four auto-clusters represent merely different grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative) and syntactic positions (standalone vs. compound with 'of'), not distinct lexicographic senses. Whether used as subject, genitive modifier, or object of a preposition, the referent and semantic content remain identical. 540×
AR["المَسيحُ","المَسيحِ","المَسِيحَ","المَسِيحُ","المَسِيحِ","الْمَسِيحَ","الْمَسِيحُ","الْمَسِيحِ","يَا-مَسِيحُ"]·ben["(খ্রীষ্ট","খ্রীষ্ট","খ্রীষ্ট,","খ্রীষ্ট।","খ্রীষ্টের"]·DE["Christus"]·EN["Christ","Christos"]·FR["Christ"]·heb["מָּשִׁיחַ","מָשִׁיחַ"]·HI["चरिस्तोस","चरिस्तोस-के","मसीह","मसीह-का"]·ID["(Kristus","Kristus","Kristus,","Kristus."]·IT["Cristo"]·jav["(Kristus","Kristus","Kristus,","Kristus.","Sang-Kristus","Sang-Kristus,","Sang-Kristus.","Sang-Kristus?"]·KO["그리스도","그리스도-가","그리스도-의","그리스도는","그리스도다","그리스도라고","그리스도스는","그리스도스라","그리스도여","그리스도의","그리스도이다"]·PT["(Cristo","Cristo","Cristo,","Cristo?"]·RU["Христа","Христе?","Христом","Христос"]·ES["Christé","Christós"]·SW["(Christós","-","Christos","Christós","Christós,","Hapa","Kristo","na"]·TR["(Mesih","Mesih","Mesih'in","Mesih'in,","Mesih’e","Mesih’i"]·urd["اے-مسیح","مسیح","مسیح-کی","مسیح-کے"]
Matt 1:16, Matt 1:18, Matt 2:4, Matt 11:2, Matt 16:16, Matt 16:20, Matt 16:21, Matt 22:42, Matt 23:10, Matt 24:5, Matt 24:23, Matt 26:63 (+38 more)
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
χριστός, ή, όν, (χρίω) to be rubbed on, used as ointment or salve, opposed to πιστός, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἔλαιον τὸ χ. anointing oil, LXX __II of persons, anointed, ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ χ. LXX __II.2 especially of the Kings of Israel, ὁ χ. ΚυρίουLXX; plural, of the patriarchs, LXX __II.3 in NT, ὁ χ. the Messiah, NT; then used as proper name of Jesus, Ἰησοῦς χ. NT