Χριστός
Christ
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
20 verses where G5547 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Ephesians. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Ephesians
- Ephesians 1:1 Χριστοῦ Χριστῷ n gen sg masc n dat sg masc Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
- Ephesians 1:2 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 1:3 Χριστοῦ Χριστῷ n gen sg masc n dat sg masc Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
- Ephesians 1:5 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
- Ephesians 1:17 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
- Ephesians 2:12 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Ephesians 2:13 Χριστῷ Χριστοῦ n dat sg masc n gen sg masc But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
- Ephesians 2:20 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
- Ephesians 3:1 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
- Ephesians 3:4 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;
- Ephesians 3:8 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- Ephesians 3:19 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- Ephesians 4:7 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Ephesians 4:12 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
- Ephesians 4:13 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
- Ephesians 5:5 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
- Ephesians 5:20 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
- Ephesians 5:21 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
- Ephesians 6:6 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
- Ephesians 6:23 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“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
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.
- #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
- Romans 65 verses 13%
- 1 Corinthians 54 verses 11%
- 2 Corinthians 44 verses 9%
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- Christ = "anointed"
- Christ was the Messiah, the Son of God
- anointed
Word origin
Derived from χριω (chríō) (G5548) — to anoint.
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.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Leviticus 4:5 χριστός
- 1 Samuel 2:10 χριστός
- 2 Samuel 1:14 χριστός
- 1 Chronicles 16:22 χριστός
- 2 Chronicles 6:42 χριστός
- Psalms 2:2 χριστός
- Isaiah 45:1 χριστός
- Lamentations 4:20 χριστός
- Daniel 9:26 χριστός
- Amos 4:13 χριστός
- Habakkuk 3:13 χριστός
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.
- Leviticus 4:5 χριστός The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:16 χριστός The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:
- Leviticus 6:15 χριστός He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor, as its memorial, to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 21:10 χριστός "'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes;
- Leviticus 21:12 χριστός neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 χριστός Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 1 Samuel 2:35 χριστός I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
- 1 Samuel 12:3 χριστός Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
- 1 Samuel 12:5 χριστός He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. They said, He is witness.
- 1 Samuel 16:6 χριστός It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
- 1 Samuel 24:7 χριστός So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
- 1 Samuel 24:11 χριστός Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.
- 1 Samuel 26:9 χριστός David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?
- 1 Samuel 26:11 χριστός Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.
- 1 Samuel 26:16 χριστός This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.
- 1 Samuel 26:23 χριστός Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.
- 2 Samuel 1:14 χριστός David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?
- 2 Samuel 1:16 χριστός David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
- 2 Samuel 2:5 χριστός David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
- 2 Samuel 19:22 χριστός David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?
- 2 Samuel 22:51 χριστός Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
- 2 Samuel 23:1 χριστός Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, The man who was raised on high says, The anointed of the God of Jacob, The sweet psalmist of Israel:
- 1 Chronicles 16:22 χριστός [Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, Do my prophets no harm.
- 2 Chronicles 6:42 χριστός Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] loving kindnesses to David your servant.
- 2 Chronicles 22:7 χριστός Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
- Psalms 2:2 χριστός The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed, saying,
- Psalms 17:51 χριστός
- Psalms 19:7 χριστός Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
- Psalms 27:8 χριστός When you said, "Seek my face," My heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."
- Psalms 83:10 χριστός Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.
- Psalms 88:39 χριστός
- Psalms 88:52 χριστός
- Psalms 104:15 χριστός Wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengthens man's heart.
- Psalms 131:10 χριστός
- Psalms 131:17 χριστός
- Isaiah 45:1 χριστός Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
- Lamentations 4:20 χριστός The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
- Daniel 9:26 χριστός After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Amos 4:13 χριστός For, behold, he who forms the mountains, And creates the wind, And declares to man what is his thought; Who makes the morning darkness, And treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name."
- Habakkuk 3:13 χριστός You went forth for the salvation of your people, For the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
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.
