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tyolilums wrote:

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Prof, would I be correct in saying that the Tanach only names four Moshiachs? Saul, David,Josiah, and Cyrus?

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The only men who are explicitly called by the title מָשִׁיחַ Mashiyah are שָׁאוּל Sha'ul, דָּוִד David, יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ Yoshiyyahu and כּוֹרֶשׁ Koresh.

Sophiee1 wrote:

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How about Isaiah 45:1 and למשיחו?

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Huh???

Sophiee1 wrote:

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Megillah 12a debates whether or not G-d was actually speaking of Cyrus as the messiah, or whether G-d was speaking to the messiah about Cyrus

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It's hardly a "debate", Sophie - merely a single Scholar attempting to explain one verse of Scripture:

דָּרַשׁ רַב נַחְמָן בַּר רַב חִסְדָּא: מַאי דִּכְתִיב "כֹּה אָמַר יְיָ לִמְשִׁיחוֹ לְכוֹרֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר הֶחֱזַקְתִּי בִימִינוֹ..."? וְכִי כּוֹרֶשׁ מָשִׁיחַ הָיָה? אֶלָּא אָמַר לוֹ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לַמָּשִׁיחַ "קוֹבֵל אֲנִי לְךָ עַל כּוֹרֶשׁ: אֲנִי אָמַרְתִּי 'הוּא יִבְנֶה בֵּיתִי וִיקַבֵּץ גָּלְיוֹתַי' - וְהוּא אָמַר "מִי בָכֶם מִכָּל עַמּוֹ... וְיַעַל"׃

Rav Nahman bar Rav Hisda expounded: What is the meaning of the verse "Thus said Adonai to His Mashiyah, to Koresh whom I grabbed by his right hand..." (Y'shayahu 45:1)? Was Koresh really the Mashiyah? No, what it means is this: Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu ('the Holy One, Who is blessed') was saying to the Mashiyah: I complain against Koresh on your behalf - I decreed "he is to build My Temple and gather my exiles" (Y'shayahu 45:13), but all he said was "whoever there is among you from all of His people... he may go up" (Ezra 1:3)

tyolilums wrote:

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How do you write the plural form of mashiach in Hebrew?

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The plural of מָשִׁיחַ mashiyah is מְשִׁיחִים m'shihim. This inflexion does not occur anywhere in the T'nach.

Rashi, however, does use the word מְשִׁיחִים m'shihim once in his commentary on the Talmud. On folio 52b of Treatise Sukkah, the verse וַיַּרְאֵֽנִי יְיָ אַרְבָּעָה חָרָשִׁים׃ "Then Adonai showed me four harashim" (Z'charyah 2:3) is quoted and the Talmud asks

?מַאן נִינְהוּ אַרְבָּעָה חָרָשִׁים

Who are these four harashim?

אֲמַר רַב חַנָא בַּר בִּיזְנָא אֲמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן חֲסִידָא: מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִד וּמָשִׁיחַ בֶּן יוֹסֵף, וְאֵלִיָּהוּ, וְכֹהֵן צֶֽדֶק

Said Rav Hana bar Bizna in the name of Rabbi Shim'on Hasida ["the Pious"]: "The Messiah son of David, the Messiah son of Yoséf, Éliyyahu, and 'the Righteous Priest'."

מְשִׁיחִים, שְׁנֵיהֶם חָרָשִׁים לְבִנְיַּן בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ, אֵלִיָּהוּ חֶֽרֶשׁ אֶֽבֶן, שֶׁבָּנָה מִזְבֵּֽחַ בְּהַר הַכַּרְמֶל, וּמָצִינוּ שֶׁהוּא עָתִיד לְהִשְׁתַּלֵּֽחַ׃
וְכֹהֵן צֶֽדֶק - הוּא שֵׁם בֶּן נֹחַ וְנִקְרָא חָרָשׁ "וַיְחַזֵּק חָרָשׁ אֶת־צֹרֵף". וּבִבְרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה מְפָרֵשׁ לֵיהּ בְּמַלְכִּי־צֶֽדֶק שֶׁבָּא לִקְרַאת אַבְרָהָם וּבֵרְכוֹ וְחִזְּקוֹ; וּקְרָאוֹ חָרָשׁ עַל שֵׁם בִּנְיַּן הַתֵּיבָה שֶׁבָּנָה עִם אָבִיו׃

The Messiahs, both of them will be craftsmen in building the [Third] Temple and Éliyyahu was a skilled stone-mason because he was able to build an altar on Mount Karmel (see M'lachim Alef 18:30-32), and we find that one day he is destined to be sent back.
and 'the Righteous Priest' − this is Shem ben No'ah who is called a craftsman "And the craftsman strengthened the goldsmith" (Y'shayahu 41:7) [I cannot for the life of me see the connection!]. And in B'réshιt Rabbah this term is explained as a reference to Malki-Tzedek who came to meet Avraham and blessed him and strengthened him (see B'réshιt 14:18-20); he is called a craftsman on account of the building of the Teivah, which he built with his father.

tyolilums wrote:

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I was trying to figure out how you knew T'hillim 105:15 and Divrei Hayamim Alef 16:22 had the plural form. When they add the 'my' ending it confuses me how you know the base word is plural.

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I suspected that was the reason for your question. The number (singular or plural) of a noun with pronominal suffix is indicated by the vowel points; e.g.

מְשִׁיחִי m'shihi is "my messiah" (see entries 5. and 6. in my online concordance),

מְשִׁיחַי m'shihai is "my messiahs" (the vowel-point pattah changes to kamatz, i.e. מְשִׁיחָי, when the word coincides with a grammatical pause).

tyolilums wrote:

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The word 'christian' only appears once in the Greek testament, in 1Peter.

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Sorry, ty, but it seems you don't know your "new testament" as well as you think you do: the word χριστιανός khristianos "a christian" actually occurs three times in the PGG ("Pagan Greek Garbage"): twice in Ma'asei Hash'lihim ("Deeds of the Emissaries") and once in Iggeret Rishonah L'fetros ("First Letter to Petros"). The verses are Deeds of the Emissaries 11:26, 26:28 and First Letter to Petros 4:16; and the first of these indicates that χρηματίσαι τε πρώτως ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τοὺς μαθητὰς Χριστιανούς "the students were first called 'christians' at Antiocheia".

It should be noted that Thayer's Lexicon defines the word for "student", μαθητής mathētēs, when applied to the students of Yoshke, as

"in a wide sense, in the gospels, those among the Jews who favoured him, joined his party, became his adherents",

"all those who confess Yoshke as the messiah".

Netanel wrote:

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It appears 20 times in the Tanach. Throughout the N'viyim it is often applied to God, but it is also applied to those God raises up to save Israel from danger.

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According to my search engine, Netanel, you left a few out − and the first example refers to a person conveniently present to "save" a girl from being raped. The missing cases are: D'varim 22:27, 28:31; Shoftim 6:36, 12:3; Sh'muel Alef 10:19, 11:3, 14:39; Z'charyah 8:7; T'hillim 7:11, 17:7; there could be even more (I do not have time to check my concordance at the moment).