What is in the name Kiersten again
Over the last three years I have recieved many comments on this entry. By far the following comment is the best. It really explains what the name Kiersten means and the background of it. Thank you Kiersten Leigh Johnson for your comment and your years of research.
Here is the comment that she wrote:
Hello fellow Kierstens!
I am 36, and was the only Kiersten I knew for a very long time. I’ve since gone to Scandinavia and have found many strong women, actresses, wives of Kings, etc., named thus. To keep people from saying my name incorrectly, I tell them that the R is in the middle, and you have to SMILE when you say it.
I’ve done research over the years, and it would seem that the name does come from the word chrisma χÏ?ίσμα, which is a special scented and blessed oil used in ancient, in particular Christian ritual. Indeed, this is a strong name!
Here are some excerpts: Being “anointed with the oil [Chrism] of God” was the sign of a Christian, and a physical representation of having the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost), and it retains this meaning in Catholicism and Orthodoxy today.
To anoint is to grease with perfumed oil, fat, or melted butter, a process employed ritually in all religions and among all races, civilized or savage, partly as a mode of ridding persons and things of dangerous influences and diseases, especially of the demons (Persian drug, Greek κηÏ?ες, Armenian dev) which are or cause those diseases; and partly as a means of introducing into things and persons a sacramental or divine influence, a holy emanation, spirit or power. The riddance of an evil influence is often synonymous with the introduction of the good principle, and therefore it is best to consider first the use of anointing in consecrations.
In the Hebrew Bible, the High Priest and the king are each sometimes called “the anointed” (Leviticus 4:3, 5, 16; 6:20; Psalms 132:10). Prophets were also anointed (1 Kings 19:16; 1 Chronicles 16:22; Psalms 105:15).
Anointing a king was equivalent to crowning him, in fact in Israel a crown was not required (1 Samuel 16:13; 2 Samuel 2:4, etc.). Thus David was anointed as king by the prophet Samuel:
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.—1 Samuel 16:13.
For the coronation of King Charles I in 1626 the holy oil was made of a concoction of orange, jasmine, distilled roses, distilled cinnamon, oil of ben, extract of bensoint, ambergris, musk and civet.
John 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
The promised Deliverer is twice called the “Anointed” or Moshiach (Psalms 2:2; Daniel 9:25, 26), because he was anointed with the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 61:1) which, in the text, is an expression of nobility and greatness. According to the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth is this anointed One, the Moshiach of the Tanakh (John 1:41; Acts 9:22; 17:2, 3; 18:5, 28).
According to the Jewish Bible, whenever someone received the anointing, the Spirit of God came upon this person, to qualify him or her for a God-given task.
