noun · masculine
messios
Strong’sG3323
Messiah
stem messi-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Μεσσίας, -ου, ὁ (Aram. מְשִׁיחָא = Heb. מָשִׁיחַ = Χριστός, q.v.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3323 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmes-see'-as
the Messias (i.e. Mashiach), or Christ
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesMessias.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Messiah:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | messios1×Μεσσίας | messiois |
| object accusative | mession1×Μεσσίαν | messioin |
| direct address vocative | messior | messioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | messiou | messioiu |
| to, for dative | messio | messioi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
messio is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
messios“Messiah”subjectnominative singular1×
John 4:25legatō auto tas gunaikas; Oidamē hoti Messios erchotō, tos legorōntos christos; hotan erchateia …The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He …
mession“Messiah”objectaccusative singular1×
John 1:41… Simōnon kai legatō auto; Heuriskanē ton Mession hem atō methermēneuorōntem christos.… told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).