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the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed …” (Ps. 2:2).
In Dan. 9:25 the word is transliterated: “Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
Prince.…” The New Testament also attests the word in this latter meaning (John 1:41).
Most frequently in the New Testament the word is translated (“Christ”) rather than
transliterated (“Messiah”).
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ANOINT
.
(
, 4888), “anointment.” This noun occurs 21 times and only in
Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. It always follows the Hebrew word for oil. The first
occurrence is Exod. 25:6: “Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet
incense.”
B. Verb.
(
, 4886), “to smear with oil or paint, anoint.” This verb, which
appears 69 times in biblical Hebrew, has cognates in Ugaritic, Akkadian, Aramaic, and
Arabic. The objects of this verb are people, sacrificial victims, and objects of worship.
Aaron and his sons are the objects of this verb in Exod. 30:30: “And thou shalt anoint
Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s
office.”
MIDST
(
(
&/
, 8432), “midst; middle.” This word, which also appears in Ugaritic,
occurs about 418 times in biblical Hebrew and in all periods.
(
indicates the part of a space, place, number of people, things, or line which is
not on the end or outside edge. This emphasis is in Gen. 9:21: “And he [Noah] drank of
the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within [literally, “in the midst of”] his
tent. In many contexts the word means “among,” not necessarily in the middle: “… And
he [Pharaoh] lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among [literally,
“in the midst of”] his servants” (Gen. 40:20). Exod. 14:29 uses
(
as an extension of
the word “through”: “But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the
sea.…” The idea “within” can be emphasized with the addition of words like
,
“belly, inwards,” or , “heart”: “… My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my
bowels” (Ps. 22:14). This word also sometimes means simply “in” in the sense of “mixed
into something”: “And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to
work it in the blue …” (Exod. 39:3).
(
can mean “middle” when applied to an object or person between two others:
“And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the
hem of the robe …” (Exod. 39:25). The same sense but a different translation is required
in Judg. 15:4: “And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands,
and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.” This appears to
be the meaning of the word in its first biblical occurrence: “And God said, Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters” (Gen.
1:6). In Num. 35:5 the word means “in the center”: “And ye shall measure from without
the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits,
and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and