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  1. From Hebrew mashiach `anointed'. in Judaism
  2. and Christianity, the saviour or deliverer.
  3. Jews from the time of the Old Testament exile
  4. in Babylon have looked forward to the coming
  5. of the Messiah. Christians believe that the
  6. Messiah came in the person of Jesus, and
  7. hence called him the Christ.
  8.