To rescue
נָצַלStrong’s H5337natsal (na-tsal)
Appears in 194 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natsal is the Hebrew word usually translated “deliver me”, “deliverer” and “deliver”. It appears in 194 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.”
Meaning
- To snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder(Niphal) · (Piel) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be plucked out · (Hithpael) to strip oneself
How it's translated
- deliver me 13
- a deliverer 13
- to deliver 10
- they will deliver 7
- you have delivered 6
- he will deliver 6
- and i will deliver 5
- to deliver you 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 44
- Isaiah 19
- 1 Samuel 14
- Ezekiel 14
- Exodus 12
- Proverbs 12
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:7In contextAnd I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
- Zechariah 3:2In contextAnd the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
- Zechariah 11:6In contextFor I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
- Genesis 31:9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
- Genesis 31:16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
- Genesis 32:11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
All 194 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָצַל natsal · to rescue
1) to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder 1a)(Niphal) 1a1) to tear oneself away, deliver oneself 1a2) to be torn out or away, be delivered 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to strip off, spoil 1b2) to deliver 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to take away, snatch away 1c2) to rescue, recover 1c3) to deliver (from enemies or troubles or death) 1c4) to deliver from sin and guilt 1d) (Hophal) to be plucked out 1e) (Hithpael) to strip oneself Aramaic equivalent: ne.tsal (נְצַל "to rescue" H5338)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rescue” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RESCUE, verb transitive
res'cu.[Latin re and quatio.]
- “So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not” 1 Samuel 14:45
All definitions and other forms of “rescue”
RES'CUE, noun
[See the Verb.]
- Deliverance from restraint, violence or danger, by force or by the interference of an agent.
- In law, rescue or rescous, the forcible retaking of a lawful distress from the distrainor, or from the custody of the law; also, the forcible liberation of a defendant from the custody of the officer, in which cases, the remedy is by writ of rescous.
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.