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Χριστός

Christ

Thayer's lists 3 entries for ‘Christ’ fuller range ↓

G5547 Strong's Greek
Christós Transliteration
/khris-tos'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 530 appearances

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About this entry

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“Christ” is the headline sense of the Greek name Χριστος (Christós). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:1. With 499 verses in 26 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Christ
Modern gloss
Christ
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G5547 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

499
distinct verses
The word appears in 499 distinct verses.
26 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:1.
Revelation 20:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:6.
#37
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 37 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 499 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 53 · 11%
  • Acts 25 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 357 · 72%
  • General Epistles 57 · 11%
  • Revelation 7 · 1%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 499 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 357 verses · 72%
  • Gospels 53 verses · 11%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 45 verses · 9%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 37 verses · 7%
  • Johannine 36 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 12 verses · 2%
  • Revelation 7 verses · 1%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Christ 538×, Christ's 12×, Is christ 5×
  • American Standard Version: Christ 486×, Is christ 5×, Lord 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Christ 519×, Christ’s 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Christ 528×, Christ s 3×, Is 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5547 across 569 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Christ” 538×
  • “Christ's” 12×
  • “Is christ” 5×
  • “Was christ” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5547 across 526 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Christ” 486×
  • “Is christ” 5×
  • “Lord” 4×
  • “Are christ” 2×
  • “God” 2×
  • “Hath christ” 2×
  • “Is the christ” 2×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5547 across 528 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Christ” 519×
  • “Christ’s” 5×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5547 across 540 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Christ” 528×
  • “Christ s” 3×
  • “Is” 2×
  • “Is christ” 2×
  • “Is of christ” 2×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Christ = "anointed"
  2. Christ was the Messiah, the Son of God
  3. anointed

Word origin

Derived from χριω (chríō) (G5548) — to anoint.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 17:13,1

From G5548 ; anointed that is the messiah an epithet of Jesus : - christ.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 7 distinct written forms G5547 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
Χριστοῦ Christoû Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:1 249
Χριστῷ Christō̂ Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Romans 3:24 103
Χριστὸς Christòs Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 2:4 71
Χριστὸν Christòn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Luke 2:26 44
Χριστός Christós Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:16 41
Χριστόν Christón Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 27:17 21
Χριστέ Christé Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 26:68 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5547, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

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Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Christ). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ (Acts 17:3; 18:5; Matt. 22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus spoken of by Isaiah (61:1), and by Daniel (9:24-26), who styles him "Messiah the Prince."

The Messiah is the same person as "the seed of the woman" (Gen. 3:15), "the seed of Abraham" (Gen. 22:18), the "Prophet like unto Moses" (Deut. 18:15), "the priest after the order of Melchizedek" (Ps. 110:4), "the rod out of the stem of Jesse" (Isa. 11:1, 10), the "Immanuel," the virgin's son (Isa. 7:14), "the branch of Jehovah" (Isa. 4:2), and "the messenger of the covenant" (Mal. 3:1). This is he "of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write." The Old Testament Scripture is full of prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men. This name denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb. 5:4; Isa. 11:2-4; 49:6; John 5:37; Acts 2:22).

To believe that "Jesus is the Christ" is to believe that he is the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1 Cor. 12:3; 1 John 5:1).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

[Jesus]

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

anointed

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word Χριστος appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 40 verses in 11 books.

41
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
40
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
11 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5547) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5547) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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