"the" (2)

[Stahlke, Herbert F.W.]

Steve,

The Septuagint (3rd - 2nd c. BCE) uses christou in ISam12:3 to mean
"anointed one".  The form shows up regularly in Samuel/Kings.  In
ISam24:6 David refers to Saul as "the lord's anointed", using to:
christo: kyriou.  But I don't have a Classical Greek concordance handy,
so I don't know how it would have been used in that body of literature
where a notion of messiah didn't exist.

Herb


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In a message dated 8/30/04 12:18:04 PM, hstahlke at bsu.edu writes:
<< Correct, as a Greek translation of Aramaic meshiha, Hebrew mashah. >>

Herb-
Was chrio:/christos ever used in Greek before Christianity in the sense
of 
"anoint in consecration" or did it ever appear as a title (proper noun)?
In 
other words, did the translation also carry a new meaning into Greek?  I
think 
earlier Hebrew kings were also called "the anointed ones" in Hebrew.

Steve