A prediction should not be assigned to a particular person merely because a name or title seems similar. The intended meaning of an annunciation depends on its clauses, descriptive features, timing and purpose. The lexical meaning of a title should be distinguished from a person’s established proper name.
If a prediction describes the future figure’s mission, activity and context, similarity in one label does not by itself establish the identification. Likewise, alternative translations of a name do not settle the original passage’s meaning without textual evidence.
Two errors are avoided: imposing a preferred referent on the text in advance, and isolating a single word from the rest of the passage. Both errors weaken otherwise serious comparative inquiry.