# messiah (מָשִׁיחַ)

pronounced: ma-SHI-ach


**Mashiach — the anointed one**

## In Scripture

> Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
> — 1 Samuel 16:13 (David anointed — the pattern every later mashiach is measured against)

> The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
> — Psalm 2:2 (The royal psalm that makes Mashiach a title, not just an act)

> The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
> — Isaiah 61:1 (The anointing Yeshua read aloud in Nazareth and claimed as His own)

> Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
> — Daniel 9:25 (The one Hebrew prophecy that dates the coming of Mashiach)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


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