yasah (to save) · Rightly

Meaning

To save, be saved, be delivered(Niphal) · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

a deliverer 14
save me 12
save 10
to deliver 7
to save 6
and he delivered 5
and he delivered them 4
save us 4

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

Where it's used most

Psalms 57
Isaiah 29
Judges 20
Jeremiah 17
1 Samuel 16
2 Samuel 10

23 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Zechariah 8:13In contextAnd it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
Zechariah 9:9In contextRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Zechariah 9:16In contextAnd the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
Zechariah 10:6In contextAnd I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Zechariah 12:7In contextThe LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Exodus 2:17And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

All 199 verses, by book

Exodus 2: 2:17 14:30
Numbers 1: 10:9
Deuteronomy 5: 20:4 22:27 28:29 28:31 33:29
Joshua 2: 10:6 22:22
Judges 20: 2:16 2:18 3:9 3:15 3:31 6:14 6:15 6:31 6:36 6:37 7:2 7:7 8:22 10:1 10:12 10:13 10:14 12:2 12:3 13:5
1 Samuel 16: 4:3 7:8 9:16 10:1 10:19 10:27 11:3 14:6 14:23 14:39 17:47 23:2 23:5 25:26 25:31 25:33
2 Samuel 10: 3:18 8:6 8:14 10:11 10:19 14:4 22:3 22:4 22:28 22:42
2 Kings 7: 6:26 6:27 13:5 14:27 16:7 19:19 19:34
1 Chronicles 6: 11:14 16:35 18:6 18:13 19:12 19:19
2 Chronicles 2: 20:9 32:22
Nehemiah 1: 9:27
Job 4: 5:15 22:29 26:2 40:14
Psalms 57: 3:7 6:4 7:1 7:10 12:1 17:7 18:3 18:27 18:41 20:6 20:9 22:21 28:9 31:2 31:16 33:16 34:6 34:18 36:6 37:40 44:3 44:6 44:7 54:1 55:16 57:3 59:2 60:5 69:1 69:35 71:2 71:3 72:4 72:13 76:9 80:3 80:7 80:19 86:2 86:16 98:1 106:8 106:10 106:21 106:47 107:13 107:19 108:6 109:26 109:31 116:6 118:25 119:94 119:117 119:146 138:7 145:19
Proverbs 2: 20:22 28:18
Isaiah 29: 19:20 25:9 30:15 33:22 35:4 37:20 37:35 38:20 43:3 43:11 43:12 45:15 45:17 45:20 45:21 45:22 46:7 47:13 47:15 49:25 49:26 59:1 59:16 60:16 63:1 63:5 63:8 63:9 64:5
Jeremiah 17: 2:27 2:28 4:14 8:20 11:12 14:8 14:9 15:20 17:14 23:6 30:7 30:10 30:11 31:7 33:16 42:11 46:27
Lamentations 1: 4:17
Ezekiel 3: 34:22 36:29 37:23
Hosea 4: 1:7 13:4 13:10 14:3
Obadiah 1: 1:21
Habakkuk 1: 1:2
Zephaniah 2: 3:17 3:19
Zechariah 6: 8:7 8:13 9:9 9:16 10:6 12:7

Hebrew dictionary

יָשַׁע yasah · to save

1) to save, be saved, be delivered 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be liberated, be saved, be delivered 1a2) to be saved (in battle), be victorious 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to save, deliver 1b2) to save from moral troubles 1b3) to give victory to

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SAVE, verb transitive

[Latin salvo. As salve is used in Latin for salutation or wishing health, as hail is in English, I suspect this word to be from the root of heal or hail, the first letter being changed. Gr. See Salt.]

To preserve from injury, destruction or evil of any kind; to rescue from danger; as, to save a house from the flames; to save a man from drowning; to save a family from ruin; to save a state from war.“He cried, saying Lord, save me” Matthew 14:30
To preserve from final and everlasting destruction; to rescue from eternal death.“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” 1 Timothy 1:15
To deliver; to rescue from the power and pollution of sin.“He shall save his people from their sins” Matthew 1:21
To hinder from being spent or lost; as, to save the expense of a new garment.

All definitions and other forms of “save”

To prevent. method in affairs saves much perplexity.
To reserve or lay by for preservation.
To spare; to prevent; to hinder from occurrence.
To salve; as, to save appearances.
To take or use opportunely, so as not to lose.
To except; to reserve from a general admission or account.“Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only” Joshua 11:13“Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one” 2 Corinthians 11:24

SAVE, verb intransitive

To hinder expense.

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