[B-Greek] Full meaning of the Greek word "CHRISTOS"

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat May 26 11:51:39 EDT 2007


On May 26, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Carl Unger wrote:

> If anyone has time I would like to know a full meaning of the word  
> CHRISTOS
> the word for Christ in the context of the epistles.
> I do know this isn't a hermeneutics mailing list but it's ok if  
> it's related

It's NOT OK to go into hermeneutics as such on a Greek word -- i.e.,  
we're not going to talk about Christology when seeking to ascertain  
the meaning of the Greek word CRISTOS (Χριστός) in any part of  
the NT text corpus. That said,  I think it's safe to say (and this is  
what you'll find constated in BDAG) that the word is used in two  
ways: (1) as a title with the sense "fulfiller of Israelite  
expectation of a deliverer, the Anointed One, the Messiah, the  
Christ," and (2)  "the personal name ascribed to Jesus."


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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