Messiah 音標拼音: [məs'ɑɪə]
n . 彌賽亞
彌賽亞
messiah n 1 :
any expected deliverer [
synonym : {
messiah }, {
christ }]
2 :
Jesus Christ ;
considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer 3 :
the awaited king of the Jews ;
the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people 4 :
an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742 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 .
[
Webster 1913 Suppl .]
Messiah \
Mes *
si "
ah \,
n . [
Heb .
m [=
a ]
sh [
imac ]
akh anointed ,
fr .
m [=
a ]
shakh to anoint .
Cf . {
Messias }.]
The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews ;
the Savior ;
Christ .
[
1913 Webster ]
And told them the Messiah now was born . --
Milton .
[
1913 Webster ]
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "
Messiah ":
Christ ,
Christ Jesus ,
Emmanuel ,
God the Son ,
God -
man ,
Immanuel ,
Jesu ,
Jesus ,
Jesus Christ ,
Jesus of Nazareth ,
King of Glory ,
King of Heaven ,
King of Kings ,
Lamb of God ,
Lord Jesus ,
Lord of Lords ,
Lord our Righteousness ,
Our Lord ,
Prince of Peace ,
Redeemer ,
Savior ,
Son of God ,
Son of Man ,
deliverer ,
emancipator ,
liberator ,
rescuer ,
savior ,
the Advocate ,
the Anointed ,
the Christ ,
the Christ Child ,
the Door ,
the Galilean ,
the Good Shepherd ,
the Infant Jesus ,
the Intercessor ,
the Judge ,
the Lamb ,
the Life ,
the Master ,
the Mediator ,
the Nazarene ,
the Only -
Begotten ,
the Risen ,
the True Vine ,
the Truth ,
the Vine ,
the Way
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "
messiah ":
Mahdi ,
bell cow ,
bell mare ,
bellwether ,
born leader ,
charismatic leader ,
choirmaster ,
choragus ,
conductor ,
coryphaeus ,
duce ,
file leader ,
forerunner ,
fugleman ,
inspired leader ,
leader ,
leader of men ,
pacemaker ,
pacesetter ,
precentor ,
ringleader ,
standard -
bearer ,
symphonic conductor ,
torchbearer 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 .)
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