To take out/select

Usually translated “do pluck out”, “do gouge out” and “rescued”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• do pluck out 1
• do gouge out 1
• rescued 1
• to deliver 1
• delivered 1
• i rescued 1
• delivering 1
• he may deliver 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 5
• Matthew 2
• Galatians 1

3 books in all.

• Matthew 18:9And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
• Acts 7:10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
• Acts 7:34I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
• Acts 12:11And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
• Acts 23:27This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
• Acts 26:17Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “rescued” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.