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Messiah
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Messiah
A
messiah
(literally, "anointed one") is a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the
Abrahamic religions
. In the
Hebrew Bible
, a messiah is a king or
High Priest
traditionally
anointed
with
holy anointing oil
. However, messiahs were not exclusively Jewish, as the Hebrew Bible refers to
Cyrus the Great
, king of Persia, as a messiah for his decree to
rebuild the Jerusalem Temple
.
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