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Christos (Strong’s G5547): Meaning in the Bible

Christos (Χριστός) is the Greek word numbered G5547 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. In the King James Bible it is translated Christ..

Χριστός
Christós · Greek
Strong’s G5547 · khris-tos'

The full Strong’s definition

anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus

Derivation. from G5548;

How the King James Bible translates it

Christ.

And Christ

Christos renders the Hebrew Messiah, the Anointed One long promised. Christians confess that the promise landed on Jesus of Nazareth, the anointed King, Priest, and Prophet in one.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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