To anoint
מָשַׁחStrong’s H4886mashach (ma-shach)
Appears in 66 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashach is the Hebrew word usually translated “anoint”, “anointed” and “smeared”. It appears in 66 verses of the Old Testament.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Meaning
- To smear, anoint, spread a liquid(Qal) · (Niphal) to be anointed
How it's translated
- and you will anoint 11
- and he anointed 6
- and they anointed 5
- smeared 4
- you will anoint 3
- was anointed 3
- he has anointed you 3
- i anoint you 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 11
- Leviticus 8
- Numbers 7
- 1 Samuel 7
- 2 Samuel 7
- 1 Kings 6
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:13I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
- Exodus 28:41And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
- Exodus 29:2And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 29:7Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
- Exodus 29:36And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
- Exodus 30:26And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
All 66 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מָשַׁח mashach · to anoint
1) to smear, anoint, spread a liquid 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to smear 1a2) to anoint (as consecration) 1a3) to anoint, consecrate 1b) (Niphal) to be anointed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “anointed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ANOINT'ED, participle passive
Smeared or rubbed with oil; set apart; consecrated with oil.
All definitions and other forms of “anointed”
ANOINT'ED, noun
The Messiah, or Son of God, consecrated to the great office of Redeemer; called the Lord's anointed Cyrus is also called the Lord's anointed
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.