What is the meaning of Messiah?

noun

  • Any expected deliverer.
  • Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer.
  • The awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
  • An oratorio composed by Handel in 1742. .
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