To rescue
נְצַלStrong’s H5338netsal (ne-tsal)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Netsal is the Aramaic word usually translated “rescue”, “rescue him” and “rescuing”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.”
Meaning
- (Aphel) to rescue, extricate, deliver
How it's translated
- to rescue 1
- to rescue him 1
- and rescuing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:14In contextThen the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
- Daniel 6:27In contextHe delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
Aramaic dictionary
נְצַל netsal · to rescue
(Aphel) to rescue, extricate, deliver Aramaic of na.tsal (נָצַל "to rescue" H5337)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.