messiah

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
messiah /mɪˈsʌɪə/

▶noun

• 1 (the Messiah) the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.

  ■ Jesus regarded by Christians as the Messiah of these prophecies.

• 2 a leader or saviour.

– derivatives
messiahship noun.

– origin OE Messias: via late L. and Gk from Heb. māšīaḥ ‘anointed’.