Salvation
יֵ֫שַׁעStrong’s H3468yesah (ye-sah)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yesah is the Hebrew word usually translated “salvation my”, “salvation your” and “salvation our”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.”
Meaning
- Deliverance, salvation, rescue, safety, welfaresafety, welfare, prosperity · salvation · victory
How it's translated
- salvation my 11
- salvation your 6
- salvation our 5
- salvation 3
- salvation his 2
- from safety 1
- safety 1
- in safety 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 20
- Isaiah 5
- 2 Samuel 4
- Job 2
- Habakkuk 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:36Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
- 2 Samuel 22:47The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
- 2 Samuel 23:5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
- 1 Chronicles 16:35And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
- Job 5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Hebrew dictionary
יֵ֫שַׁע yesah · salvation
1) deliverance, salvation, rescue, safety, welfare 1a) safety, welfare, prosperity 1b) salvation 1c) victory
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “salvation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SALVA'TION, noun
[Latin salvo, to save.]
- The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity.
- Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him everlasting happiness.“Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation” 2 Corinthians 7:10
- Deliverance from enemies; victory. Exodus 14:13
- Remission of sins, or saving graces. Luke 19:9
All definitions
- The author of man's salvation Psalms 27:1
- A term of praise or benediction. Revelation 19:1
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.