What does Ἰησοῦς · Χριστός mean in the Bible?
Ἰησοῦς · Χριστός is a Greek phrase meaning "Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah".
Greek · G2424, G5547
Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν
Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites · anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
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Ἰησοῦς G2424 Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites
Pronunciation Iēsoûs
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Χριστός G5547 anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
Pronunciation Christós
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What does Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν (Iēsoun Christon) mean in the Bible?
Ἰησοῦς · Χριστός is a Greek phrase meaning "Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah".
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Questions this entry answers
How many biblical occurrences are listed for G2424, G5547?
G2424, G5547 is connected to 906 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah
Source Gloss
Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 5 Aligned forms 906 Case pattern Nominative (456) Number pattern Singular (906)
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Matt 1:16 · Matt 3:13 · Matt 3:15 · Matt 3:16 · Matt 4:1 · Matt 4:7 · Matt 4:10 · Matt 4:17 · Matt 7:28 · Matt 8:4 · Matt 8:10 · Matt 8:13 · Matt 8:14 · Matt 8:18 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 8:22 456×
Genitive · Singular · Masculine Matt 1:1 · Matt 1:18 · Matt 2:1 · Matt 14:1 · Matt 26:6 · Matt 26:51 · Matt 26:59 · Matt 26:69 · Matt 26:71 · Matt 26:75 · Matt 27:1 · Matt 27:58 · Mark 1:1 · Mark 5:21 · Mark 5:27 · Mark 14:55 220×
Dative · Singular · Masculine Matt 8:34 · Matt 9:10 · Matt 9:27 · Matt 14:12 · Matt 15:1 · Matt 17:4 · Matt 17:19 · Matt 18:1 · Matt 21:27 · Matt 26:17 · Matt 26:49 · Matt 27:55 · Matt 27:57 · Mark 2:15 · Mark 9:4 · Mark 9:5 92×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Matt 1:21 · Matt 1:25 · Matt 14:29 · Matt 17:8 · Matt 26:4 · Matt 26:50 · Matt 26:57 · Matt 27:16 · Matt 27:17 · Matt 27:20 · Matt 27:22 · Matt 27:26 · Matt 27:27 · Matt 27:54 · Matt 28:5 · Mark 5:6 128×
Vocative · Singular · Masculine Mark 1:24 · Mark 5:7 · Mark 10:47 · Luke 4:34 · Luke 8:28 · Luke 17:13 · Luke 18:38 · Luke 23:42 · Acts 7:59 · Rev 22:20 10×
Cross-Language Connections
Hebrew roots and equivalents that share conceptual or etymological ground with this Greek word.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain