What Does “Son of David” Mean in the Bible?
Title
A title of the Messiah. God promised King David that from his family would be born the king who would save Israel.
Today
The blind men and the crowds shouted this to Jesus: they recognized him as the Messiah.
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 1:1; Matthew 21:9
What the Bible says
Matthew 1:1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Matthew 21:9
And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 439