Definition of messiah Messiah

/mʌsajˈʌ/ - [musayu] - Mes•si•ah

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What does messiah mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: messiahs
messiah - Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer
messiah - the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
messiah - any expected deliverer
		christ
		rescuer, savior, saviour, deliverer someone who saves something from danger or violence
messiah - an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742

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Wiktionary

messiah (Noun)
The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians to be Jesus Christ .
messiah (Noun)
An extremely powerful divine figure.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

messiah (n.)
The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.

Wikipedia

Messiah or the Anointed One is the figure promised by God to the Jews for the salvation of the world. The Jews think that the Messiah will be a human being that will save Israel and lead the whole world into the End Of Days and eternal peace.

Other people in real life or fiction are called messianic if they have the qualities of a messiah, or people think they will bring about a better world.

"Messiah" is the title of an oratorio by Handel. The work is in three parts, and tells the story of the birth, the life, and the death of Jesus.

Christian Beliefs about the Messiah.

Christians believe that the Messiah was Jesus, but Jews do not believe that. Christians believe that Jesus' claims to be God go against the beliefs of Judaism.

Most Jews do not think that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, or that a Messiah has come for them. Muslims believe in Jesus as the son of Mary the Messiah and as a mighty prophet of God. The believe that he will come one day again in his second coming to fight against the ("Dajjal", "false messiah"), besides the Mahdi.
Handel
Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It is Handel’s most famous work, and in England, the most often performed of any big choral work. The title Messiah means “the anointed one” and is the name given to Jesus Christ in the Christian teaching.

Background to its composition.

George Frideric Handel was born in Germany. When he was a young man he came to England and he liked it so much that he soon visited England again and stayed there for the rest of his life, becoming a naturalised Englishman.

The main reason why Handel liked England at that time was because the people liked his music and gave him support. At this time Handel was known as a composer of operas. For about 20 years Handel spent most of his time working on operas: composing them, organising performances and looking for opera singers to sing his works.

By the late 1730’s, however, people’s tastes started to change and opera was not so popular. Handel changed to writing oratorios. He almost invented the oratorio as we know it. His oratorios are based on the English tradition of the Masque, which was something between a play and an opera. However, oratorios were about stories from the Old Testament. Instead of ancient Gods or Roman emperors (which is what operas were about at that time) he used dramatic stories from the Bible. Among many great oratorios that he wrote, "Messiah" is his most famous one. However, it is different from his other oratorios in some ways.

Handel composes the Messiah.

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