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Mashiach (Strong’s H4899): Meaning in the Bible

Mashiach (מָשִׁיחַ) is the Hebrew word numbered H4899 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as anointed; usually a consecrated person (as a king, priest, or saint); specifically, the Messiah. In the King James Bible it is translated anointed, Messiah..

מָשִׁיחַ
mâshîyach · Hebrew
Strong’s H4899 · maw-shee'-akh

The full Strong’s definition

anointed; usually a consecrated person (as a king, priest, or saint); specifically, the Messiah

Derivation. from H4886;

How the King James Bible translates it

anointed, Messiah.

And Christ

Mashiach, the Anointed One, is the title of the promised deliverer. The Greek renders it Christos, and Christians confess that the anointing came to rest on Jesus of Nazareth.

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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