To rescue
שֵׁיזִבStrong’s H7804shezav (she-zav)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shezav is the Aramaic word usually translated “deliver you”, “deliver us” and “deliver”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?”
Meaning
- (Peel or Peil) to deliver
How it's translated
- he will deliver you 1
- to deliver us 1
- he will deliver 1
- and he has delivered 1
- to deliver him 1
- may he deliver you 1
- to deliver you 1
- delivering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:17In contextIf it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
- Daniel 3:28In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
- 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 6:16In contextThen the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
- Daniel 6:20In contextAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
- 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
שֵׁיזִב shezav · to rescue
(Peel or Peil) to deliver Aramaic of shuv (שׁוּב ": return" H7725)
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.