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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #5545 - χρῖσμα

Transliteration

chrîsma

Phonetics

khris'-mah

Origin

from (G5548)

Parts of Speech

Noun Neuter

TDNT

9:493,1322

Definition

Thayer's

anything smeared on, unguent, ointment, usually prepared by the Hebrews from oil and aromatic herbs. Anointing was the inaugural ceremony for priests

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 4888 ‑ מָשְׁחָה (meesh‑khaw', mosh‑khaw');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (3)

1 John

NAS (3)

1 John

HCS (3)

1 John

BSB (3)

1 John

ESV (3)

1 John

WEB (3)

1 John

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

χρῖσμα

ατος, τό, (χρίω)

later form for χρῖμα (q.v.), found in codd. of X. Smp. 2.4, An. 4.4.13, Thphr. Od. 8, 15, Sor. 1.4, Gal. 6.402, etc.

II anointing, unction, LXX Exodus 29:7, LXX Exodus 35:15, Gal. 10.892.

2. in NT of spiritual grace, χρῖσμα ἔχετε ἀπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου 1 Jo. 2.20, cf. 27.

III coating of wall, plaster, D.S. 2.9, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 62. (The usual accent χρίσμα is wrong, cf. χρῖμα.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

χρίσμα

(T, χρῖσμα ,, as in cl.; v. Tdf., Pr., 102; Bl., § 4, 2), -τος , το

(< χρίω ),

later form of χρῖμα (Æsch., al.),

[in LXX for H4888 and cogn. forms (Exodus 29:7, al.);]

an anointing, unction (the result of the action χρίειν ; ICC, in l; but cf. Westc., in l, for the view that the oil, not the act, is meant): 1 John 2:20; 1 John 2:27.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

List of Word Forms

χρισμα χρίσμα χρῖσμα χρίσματος chrisma chrísma

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