“to smear or rub with oil, i.e. (by implication) to consecrate to an office or religious service”
Definition
Strong’s Definition
to smear or rub with oil, i.e. (by implication) to consecrate to an office or religious service
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
to anoint; in NT to anoint, by way of instituting to a dignity, function, or privilege, Lk. 4:18; Acts 4:27; 10:38; 2 Cor. 1:21; Heb. 1:9*
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
probably akin to G5530 (χράομαι) through the idea of contact;
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“For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,”