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• God-man
  God-man

  noun

  Jesus Christ.
• God man
  God man

  noun

  a person, such as Jesus Christ, who unites humanity with God

God-man

American  

[god-man, -man] / ˈgɒdˈmæn, -ˌmæn /

noun

plural

God-men

1. Jesus Christ.

2. (lowercase) a being who possesses the combined attributes of a deity and of a human; demigod.

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God man British  

noun

1. a person, such as Jesus Christ, who unites humanity with God

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Etymology

Origin of God-man

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

Miles said Christians believe that this points to the idea that the covenant was made "spiritually" between the "Father and the God-man Jesus Christ — rather than Abram himself," although Abram benefited from it.

From Fox News • Mar. 13, 2022

If Lawrence was the last colonial God-man, he was also the movie epic's first moody hero, father to countless sacred screen madmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

But not to sink beneath their power, The God-man girt Him for the fray; And from the darkness of that hour, There sprang the light of endless day.

From Hymns from the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church by Brownlie, John

What God could do is no measure of man's powers: what have we in common with this "God-man?"

From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood

Not every Christian sufferer wears this garment in its celestial whiteness, as did the God-man, whom the same writer calls "the best of men That e'er wore earth about him."

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)