What does Greek Christos mean

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The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the (Hebrew) Old Testament and was completed by 132 BC. As the Old Testament contains many references to an "anointed one" (transliterated to English as "Messiah"), the decision by the (Jewish) translators to translate this word to the Greek "Christos" would have been driven by the need to find the nearest equivalent word in the Greek language to their own (Jewish) cultural concept. Greek customs and practices are largely irrelevant, what matters is the Jewish cultural practices and concepts and whether the word they chose to refer to them was a valid translation choice.

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