Χριστός
Christ
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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.
Every verse where G5547 appears in the Book of Galatians — 33 distinct verses. 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.
Galatians
- Galatians 1:1 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
- Galatians 1:3 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Galatians 1:6 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel;
- Galatians 1:7 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc and there isn't another gospel. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
- Galatians 1:10 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
- Galatians 1:12 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 1:22 Χριστῷ n dat sg masc I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
- Galatians 2:4 Χριστῷ n dat sg masc This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
- Galatians 2:16 Χριστοῦ Χριστὸν Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc n acc sg masc n gen sg masc yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
- Galatians 2:17 Χριστῷ Χριστὸς n dat sg masc n nom sg masc But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
- Galatians 2:20 Χριστῷ Χριστός n dat sg masc n nom sg masc I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Galatians 2:21 Χριστὸς n nom sg masc I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
- Galatians 3:1 Χριστὸς n nom sg masc Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?
- Galatians 3:13 Χριστὸς n nom sg masc Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
- Galatians 3:14 Χριστῷ n dat sg masc that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
- Galatians 3:16 Χριστός n nom sg masc Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
- Galatians 3:22 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc But the Scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
- Galatians 3:24 Χριστόν n acc sg masc So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Galatians 3:26 Χριστῷ n dat sg masc For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:27 Χριστὸν Χριστὸν n acc sg masc n acc sg masc For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- Galatians 3:28 Χριστῷ n dat sg masc There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:29 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
- Galatians 4:14 Χριστὸν n acc sg masc That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 4:19 Χριστὸς n nom sg masc My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
- Galatians 5:1 Χριστὸς n nom sg masc Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
- Galatians 5:2 Χριστὸς n nom sg masc Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
- Galatians 5:4 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
- Galatians 5:6 Χριστῷ n dat sg masc For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- Galatians 5:24 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
- Galatians 6:2 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
- Galatians 6:12 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
- Galatians 6:14 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- Galatians 6:18 Χριστοῦ n gen sg masc The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
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.
