H4899

• {"n":"mashiach","s":"Anointed one. In the Old Testament it usually means the reigning king.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=mashiach","r":"1 Samuel 24:6","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read anointed, and Messiah where the technical sense is in view."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**The chosen one.** Sounds like a title. Now use it of your line manager, accurately, and watch it become a description again."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Mashiach means smeared with oil, which is how kings and priests were installed. David calls Saul the LORD's mashiach. Cyrus is called it at Isaiah 45:1. The specialised sense of a coming deliverer develops later."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English Messiah is a transliteration reserved for one figure, so the ordinary usage is invisible."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When English has both a translated and a transliterated form of one word, the transliteration usually marks where a tradition has specialised the meaning."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Anointed is the majority rendering in the Old Testament; Messiah appears where the later sense is being invoked."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05de\u05b8\u05e9\u05b4\u05c1\u05d9\u05d7\u05b7 mashiach \u00b7 H4899"}],"src":["mashiach of Saul: 1 Samuel 24:6","mashiach of Cyrus: Isaiah 45:1","Greek christos renders it; John 1:41 glosses one with the other"]}