Deliverance
הַצָּלָהStrong’s H2020hatstsalah (hats-tsa-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Hatstsalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deliverance”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Meaning
- Deliverance, escape
How it's translated
- and deliverance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
הַצָּלָה hatstsalah · deliverance
deliverance, escape
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deliverance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELIVERANCE, noun
- Release from captivity, slavery, oppression, or any restraint.“He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives” Luke 4:18
- Rescue from danger or any evil.“God sent me to save your lives by a great deliverance” Genesis 45:7
- The act of bringing forth children.
- The act of giving or transferring from one to another.
All definitions
- The act of speaking or pronouncing; utterance. [In the three last senses, delivery is now used.]
- Acquittal of a prisoner, by the verdict of a jury.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.