Subscribe to our Question of the Week: Question: What does Messiah mean?. Answer: Messiah comes from the Hebrew word mashiach and means âanointed oneâ or âchosen one.â The Greek equivalent is the word Christos or, in English, Christ. The name âJesus Christâ is the same as âJesus the Messiah.â In biblical times, anointing someone with oil was a sign that God was consecrating or setting apart that person for a particular role.
When does summer start? Monday, June 1, marks the first day of meteorological summer, but when does summer officially begin? If you look at a 2015 calendar, you might spot that summer begins on June 21st this year. This uses the astronomical seasons, based on the solstices and equinoxes that occur through the year. Seasons occur due to the fact that the Earth is tilted from its axis by 23.5 degrees.
Not really sure if there is a difference between official and technical or astronomical start to summer. Northern Hemisphere summer begins-- astronomically/technically--â¦ at the moment of the summer solstice, June 21. The solstice is when the sun reaches its highest altitude in the north, the Tropic of Cancer.