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Noun: messiah  mi'sI-u
  1. Any expected deliverer
    "Many people saw him as a messiah who would solve all their problems";
    - christ
Noun: Messiah  mi'sI-u
  1. The awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
     
  2. Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer
     
  3. An oratorio composed by Handel in 1742

Derived forms: messiahs, Messiahs

Type of: cantata, deliverer, king, Logos, male monarch, oratorio, rescuer, Rex, savior [N. Amer], saviour [Brit, Cdn], Son, Word

Encyclopedia: Messiah, son of Ephraim