Messiah
pronunciation
How to pronounce Messiah in British English:
UK [məˈsaɪə]
How to pronounce Messiah in American English:
US [məˈsaɪə]
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- Noun:
- any expected deliverer
Word Origin
- messiah (n.)
- c. 1300, Messias, from Late Latin Messias, from Greek Messias, from Aramaic meshiha and Hebrew mashiah "the anointed" (of the Lord), from mashah "anoint." This is the word rendered in Septuagint as Greek Khristos (see Christ). In Old Testament prophetic writing, it was used of an expected deliverer of the Jewish nation. The modern English form represents an attempt to make the word look more Hebrew, and dates from the Geneva Bible (1560). Transferred sense of "an expected liberator or savior of a captive people" is attested from 1660s.
Example
- 1. We all have an archetypal " messiah complex " dwelling deep within .
- 2. But that does not make mr obama the new messiah .
- 3. Folk in maharashtra are looking for a messiah , and mr chavan is the only sensible candidate around .
- 4. This is a vital part of the archetypal martyr / messiah myth : to mythologize and deify the martyr .
- 5. One saturday morning each month , the vendors of the greenpoint food market converge on the church of the messiah in brooklyn .