Deliverance
תְּשׁוּעָהStrong’s H8668teshuah (te-shu-ah)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teshuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deliverance”, “victory” and “salvation your”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”
Meaning
- Salvation, deliverancedeliverance (usually by God through human agency) · salvation (spiritual in sense)
How it's translated
- deliverance 5
- a deliverance 4
- victory 3
- salvation your 3
- the victory 2
- salvation 2
- salvation my 2
- deliverance of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 13
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- Proverbs 3
- 2 Kings 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 11:9And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
- 1 Samuel 11:13And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
- 1 Samuel 19:5For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
- 2 Samuel 19:2And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
- 2 Samuel 23:10He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
- 2 Samuel 23:12But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּשׁוּעָה teshuah · deliverance
: salvation 1) salvation, deliverance 1a) deliverance (usually by God through human agency) 1b) salvation (spiritual in sense) Also means: te.shu.ah (תְּשׁוּעָה ": victory" H8668H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deliverance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELIVERANCE, noun
- Release from captivity, slavery, oppression, or any restraint.“He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives” Luke 4:18
- Rescue from danger or any evil.“God sent me to save your lives by a great deliverance” Genesis 45:7
- The act of bringing forth children.
- The act of giving or transferring from one to another.
All definitions
- The act of speaking or pronouncing; utterance. [In the three last senses, delivery is now used.]
- Acquittal of a prisoner, by the verdict of a jury.
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.