. . . . . . "A messiah (literally, \"anointed one\") is a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions. In the Hebrew Bible, a messiah (Hebrew: \u05DE\u05B8\u05E9\u05B4\u05C1\u05D9\u05D7\u05B7, Modern mashia\u1E96, Tiberian m\u0101\u0161\u00EE\u0103\u1E25) is a king or High Priest traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil."@en .