Definition

to smear or rub with oil, i.e. (by implication) to consecrate to an office or religious service

Etymology

probably akin to G5530 (χράομαι) through the idea of contact;

Where the KJV renders it

• anoint

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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