μεσίτης

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ,

   A mediator, umpire, arbitrator, PLille28.11 (iii B. C.), Plb.28.17.8 (pl.), Ep.Gal.3.19, etc.; τῶν ὁμολογιῶν D.S.4.54; θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων 1 Ep.Ti.2.5; stakeholder, PStrassb.1.41.14 (iii A. D.).    2 fem. μεσῖτις, ιδος, fili/as mesi=tin tra/pezan paraqe/menoi Luc.Am.27; φιλίας μ. ἡδονή ib.54.    II in a middle position, of a limb, Gal.18(2).861.

German (Pape)

[Seite 138] ὁ, der Vermittler, Unterhändler, Friedensstifter, Pol. 28, 15, 8; τῶν ὁμολογιῶν, D. Sic. 4, 54; N. T. u. a. Sp., wie Luc. Amor. 48.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

μεσίτης: [-ῑ], ου, ὁ, ὁ μεσιτεύων, διαιτητής, κριτής, Πολύβ. 28. 15, 8, Ἐπιστ. π. Γαλ. γ΄, 19, κτλ· τῶν ὁμολογιῶν Διόδ. 4. 54· θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων Α΄ Ἐπιστ. π. Τιμ. β΄, 5· - θηλ. μεσῖτις, -ιδος, φιλίας μεσῖτιν τράπεζαν παραθέμενοι Λουκ. Ἔρωτ. 27· φιλίας μ. ἡδονὴ αὐτόθι 54.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ου (ὁ) :
1 intermédiaire;
2 arbitre, médiateur, qui intercède.
Étymologie: μέσος.

English (Strong)

from μέσος; a go-between, i.e. (simply) an internunciator, or (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor): mediator.

English (Thayer)

μεσίτου, ὁ (μέσος), one who intervenes between two, either in order to make or restore peace and friendship, or to form g compact, or for ratifying a covenant: a medium of communication, arbitrator (Vulg. (and A. V.) mediator): ὁ μεσίτης (generic article cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18,1under the end), i. e. every mediator, whoever acts as mediator, ἑνός οὐκ ἐστι, does not belong to one party but to two or more, μεσίτης καί διαλλακτής by Philo also, vit. Moys. iii. § 19). Christ is called the μεσίτης Θεοῦ καί ἀνθρώπων, since he interposed by his death and restored the harmony between God and man which human sin had broken, μεσίτης διαθήκης, Polybius 28,15, 8; Diodorus 4,54; Philo de somn. i. § 22; Josephus, Antiquities 16,2, 2; Plutarch, de Isa. et Os. 46; once in the Sept., Job 9:33.) Cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 351ff