מָשִׁיחַ
ma.shi.ach (H4899)
anointed
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# Mashiach: The Anointed One The Hebrew word *mashiach* (מָשִׁיחַ) literally means "anointed," referring to someone who has been consecrated through the physical act of anointing with oil. This basic meaning is rooted in ancient Near Eastern practice, where anointing marked individuals for sacred or royal office. With 39 occurrences throughout the Hebrew Bible, the term appears frequently enough to indicate its importance in biblical thought, though it remains a specialized term rather than everyday vocabulary. The word's significance lies in its association with divine appointment. To be "anointed" was to be set apart by God for a specific role—typically kingship or priesthood. This explains why the term appears consistently across biblical narratives dealing with leadership and covenant. The repeated use of this single term across 39 instances suggests the concept of divine selection through anointing was a recurring and theologically important theme in ancient Israelite understanding of authority and legitimacy.
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if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.
The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting.
The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh.
Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”
When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”
Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.
But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.