χρίω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=1st aorist ἀχρισα; ([[akin]] to [[χείρ]] (?), [[see]] [[Curtius]], § 201), [[χραίνω]]; [[properly]], 'to [[touch]] [[with]] the [[hand]]', 'to [[besmear]]'); from [[Homer]] [[down]]; the Sept. for מָשַׁח; to [[anoint]] (on the persons [[who]] [[received]] anointing [[among]] the Hebrews, [[see]] [[χρῖσμα]]); in the N. T. [[only]] tropically, of God a. consecrating Jesus to the Messianic [[office]], and furnishing him [[with]] powers [[necessary]] for its [[administration]] ([[see]] [[χρῖσμα]]): [[ἔλαιον]], ([[like]] verbs of [[clothing]], putting on, etc. (cf. Winer s Grammar, § 32,4a.; Buttmann, § 131,6)), Theophilus ad Autol. 1,12we [[find]] χρίεσθαι [[ἔλαιον]] Θεοῦ and χρίεσθαι φωτί καί πνεύματι [[almost]] in the [[same]] [[sentence]]); πνεύματι ἁγίῳ καί δυνάμει, χρίειν used [[absolutely]], [[ἐγχρίω]], [[ἐπιχρίω]]. Synonym: [[see]] [[ἀλείφω]], at the [[end]])