Chrisma means “anointing” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5545 — calach (“forgive”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5545 χρίσμα (chrisma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. chrisma (khris'-mah) n. 1. an anointing or smearing 2. (figuratively) the special endowment ("chrism") of the Holy Spirit It has 10 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include holy and anointing. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
chrisma (khris'-mah) n. 1. an anointing or smearing 2. (figuratively) the special endowment ("chrism") of the Holy Spirit [from G5548] KJV: anointing, unction Root(s): G5548
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5545. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
anointing
Usage: χρίσμα (T, χρῖσμα, as in cl.; see Tdf., Pr., 102; Bl., § 4, 2), -τος, το (χρίω), later form of χρῖμα (Æsch., al.), [in LXX for מִשְׁחָה and cogn. forms (Exo.29:7, al.) ;] an anointing, unction (the result of the action χρίειν; ICC, in l; but cf. Westc., in l, for the view that the oil, not the act, is meant): 1Jn.2:20 Jn 2:27.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chrisma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5545 (χρίσμα) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
7 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt take of the anointing oil, and thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt anoint him,
And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment tempered by the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
and the ark of the testimony, and its staffs, and its propitiatory, and the veil,
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace:
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5545.
And thou shalt take of the anointing oil, and thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt anoint him,
And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment tempered by the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
and the ark of the testimony, and its staffs, and its propitiatory, and the veil,
The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and shalt anoint the tabernacle, and all things in it; and shalt sanctify it, and all its furniture, and it shall be holy.
And thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father, and they shall minister to me as priests; and it shall be that they shall have an everlasting anointing of priesthood, throughout their generations.
And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5545, grouped by book.
Chrisma (Strong's G5545) is a Greek word most simply glossed "anointing". chrisma (khris'-mah) n. 1. an anointing or smearing 2. (figuratively) the special endowment ("chrism") of the Holy Spirit
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G5545 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5545 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as holy and anointing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5545, with linked reader references where each row is available.