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Lexicon :: Strong's G4982 - sōzō

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σῴζω
Transliteration
sōzō (Key)
Pronunciation
sode'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saoz, "safe")
mGNT
106x in 36 unique form(s)
TR
110x in 37 unique form(s)
LXX
287x in 68 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:965,1132

Strong’s Definitions

σώζω sṓzō, sode'-zo; from a primary σῶς sōs (contraction for obsolete σάος sáos, "safe"); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively):—heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 110x

The KJV translates Strong's G4982 in the following manner: save (93x), make whole (9x), heal (3x), be whole (2x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 110x
The KJV translates Strong's G4982 in the following manner: save (93x), make whole (9x), heal (3x), be whole (2x), miscellaneous (3x).
  1. to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction

    1. one (from injury or peril)

      1. to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health

      2. to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue

    2. to save in the technical biblical sense

      1. negatively

        1. to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment

        2. to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σώζω sṓzō, sode'-zo; from a primary σῶς sōs (contraction for obsolete σάος sáos, "safe"); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively):—heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.
STRONGS G4982:
σῴζω (others, σῴζω (cf. WH. Introductory § 410; Meisterhans, p. 87)); future σώσω; 1 aorist ἔσωσα; perfect σέσωκα; passive, present σώζομαι; imperfect ἐσωζομην; perfect 3 person singular (Acts 4:9) σέσωσται and (according to Tdf.) σέσωται (cf. Kühner, 1:912; (Photius, under the word; Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 99; Veitch, under the word)); 1 aorist ἐσώθην; 1 future σωθήσομαι; (σῶς 'safe and sound' (cf. Latinsanus; Curtius, § 570; Vanicek, p. 1038)); from Homer down; the Sept. very often for הושִׁיעַ, also for מִלֵּט, נִצֵּל, and הִצִּיל, sometimes for עָזַר; to save, to keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction (opposed to ἀπόλλυμι, which see); Vulg.salvumfacio (orfio),salvo (salvifico, libero, etc.);
a. universally, τινα, one (from injury or peril); to save a suffering one (from perishing), e. g. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health: Matthew 9:22; Mark 5:34; Mark 10:52; Luke 7:50 (others understand this as including spiritual healing (see b. below)); Luke 8:48; Luke 17:19; Luke 18:42; James 5:15; passive, Matthew 9:21; Mark 5:23, 28; Mark 6:56; Luke 8:36, 50; John 11:12; Acts 4:9 (cf. Buttmann, § 144, 25); Acts 14:9. to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save (i. e. rescue): Matthew 8:25; Matthew 14:30; Matthew 24:22; Matthew 27:40, 42, 49; Mark 13:20; Mark 15:30; Luke 23:35, 37, 39; passive, Acts 27:20, 31; 1 Peter 4:18; τήν ψυχήν, (physical) life, Matthew 16:25; Mark 3:4; Mark 8:35; Luke 6:9; Luke 9:24 and R G L in Luke 17:33; σῴζειν τινα ἐκ with the genitive of the place, to bring safe forth from, Jude 1:5; ἐκ τῆς ὥρας ταύτης, from the peril of this hour, John 12:27; with the genitive of the state, ἐκ θανάτου, Hebrews 5:7; cf. Bleek, Brief an d. Hebrews 2:2, p. 70f; (Winers Grammar, § 30, 6 a.; see ἐκ, I. 5).
b. to save in the technical biblical sense; — negatively, to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment, Joel 2:32 (Joel 3:5); to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance: ἀπό τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, Matthew 1:21; ἀπό τῆς ὀργῆς namely, τοῦ Θεοῦ, from the punitive wrath of God at the judgment of the last day, Romans 5:9; ἀπό τῆς γενεάς τῆς σκολιᾶς ταύτης, Acts 2:40; ψυχήν ἐκ θανάτου (see θάνατος, 2), James 5:20; (ἐκ πυρός ἁρπάζοντες, Jude 1:23) — positively, to make one a partaker of the salvation by Christ (opposed to ἀπόλλυμι, which see): hence, σῴζεσθαι and ἐισέρχεσθαι εἰς τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ are interchanged, Matthew 19:25, cf. Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:26, cf. Mark 10:25; Luke 18:26, cf. Luke 18:25; so σῴζεσθαι and ζωήν αἰώνιον ἔχειν, John 3:17, cf. John 3:16. Since salvation begins in this life (in deliverance from error and corrupt notions, in moral purity, in pardon of sin, and in the blessed peace of a soul reconciled to God), but on the visible return of Christ from heaven will he perfected in the consummate blessings of αἰών μέλλων, we can understand why τό σῴζεσθαι is spoken of in some passages as a present possession, in others as a good yet future: — as a blessing beginning (or begun) on earth, Matthew 18:11 Rec.; Luke 8:12; Luke 19:10; John 5:34; John 10:9; John 12:47; Romans 11:14; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 7:16; 1 Corinthians 9:22; 1 Corinthians 10:33; 1 Corinthians 15:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21; τῇ ἐλπίδι (dative of the instrument) ἐσώθημεν (aorist of the time when they turned to Christ), Romans 8:24; χάριτι ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι διά τῆς πίστεως, Ephesians 2:5 (cf. Buttmann, § 144, 25), 8; — as a thing still future, Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:13; (Mark 13:13); Romans 5:10; 1 Corinthians 3:15; 1 Timothy 2:15; James 4:12; τήν ψυχήν, Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; ψυχάς, Luke 9:56 Rec.; τό πνεῦμα, passive, 1 Corinthians 5:5; by a pregnant construction (see εἰς, C. 1, p. 185b bottom), τινα εἰς τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ κυρίου αἰώνιον, to save and transport into etc. 2 Timothy 4:18 ( εὐσέβεια σωζουσα εἰς τήν ζωήν αἰώνιον, 4 Macc. 15:2; many examples of this construction are given in Passow, vol. ii., p. 1802{a}; (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word II. 2)). universally: (Mark 16:16); Acts 2:21; Acts 4:12; Acts 11:14; Acts 14:9; Acts 15:1,(Acts 15:11); Acts 16:30f; Romans 9:27; Romans 10:9, 13; Romans 11:26; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 Timothy 4:16; Hebrews 7:25; James 2:14; ἁμαρτωλούς, 1 Timothy 1:15; τάς ψυχάς, James 1:21; οἱ σῳζόμενοι, Revelation 21:24 Rec.; Luke 13:23; Acts 2:47; opposed to οἱ ἀπολλύμενοι, 1 Corinthians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 2:15 (see ἀπόλλυμι, 1 a. β'.). (Compare: διασῴζω, ἐκσῴζω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Joel
2:32; 3:5
Matthew
1:21; 8:25; 9:21; 9:22; 10:22; 14:30; 16:25; 18:11; 19:24; 19:25; 24:13; 24:22; 27:40; 27:42; 27:49
Mark
3:4; 5:23; 5:28; 5:34; 6:56; 8:35; 8:35; 10:25; 10:26; 10:52; 13:13; 13:20; 15:30; 16:16
Luke
6:9; 7:50; 8:12; 8:36; 8:48; 8:50; 9:24; 9:24; 9:56; 13:23; 17:19; 17:33; 18:25; 18:26; 18:42; 19:10; 23:35; 23:37; 23:39
John
3:16; 3:17; 5:34; 10:9; 11:12; 12:27; 12:47
Acts
2:21; 2:40; 2:47; 4:9; 4:9; 4:12; 11:14; 14:9; 14:9; 15:1; 15:11; 16:30; 27:20; 27:31
Romans
5:9; 5:10; 8:24; 9:27; 10:9; 10:13; 11:14; 11:26
1 Corinthians
1:18; 1:21; 3:15; 5:5; 7:16; 9:22; 10:33; 15:2
2 Corinthians
2:15
Ephesians
2:5
1 Thessalonians
2:16
2 Thessalonians
2:10
1 Timothy
1:15; 2:4; 2:15; 4:16
2 Timothy
1:9; 4:18
Titus
3:5
Hebrews
2:2; 5:7; 7:25
James
1:21; 2:14; 4:12; 5:15; 5:20
1 Peter
3:21; 4:18
Jude
1:5; 1:23
Revelation
21:24

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4982 matches the Greek σῴζω (sōzō),
which occurs 287 times in 271 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 19:17–1Sa 30:17)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - When they had brought them outside, [fn]one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay [fn]anywhere in the surrounding area; escape to the [fn]mountains, or you will be swept away.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) [fn]so that my life may be saved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - “Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the town was named [fn]Zoar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - for he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and [fn]attacks it, then the company which is left will escape.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - So Jacob named the place [fn]Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my [fn]life has been [fn]spared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:25 - So they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:19 -

“One from Jacob shall rule,

And will eliminate the survivors from the city.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:29 -

“Blessed are you, Israel;

Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD,

The shield of your help,

And He who is the sword of your majesty!

So your enemies will cringe before you,

And you will trample on their high places.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - [fn]The others came out from the city to confront them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, [fn]some on this side and some on that side; and they [fn]killed them until there was not one [fn]left who escaped or survived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:33 -

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua [fn]defeated him and his people until he had left him no survivor.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 -

So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country and the [fn]Negev and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivor, but he [fn]utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:16 -

Then the LORD raised up judges [fn]who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who tormented and oppressed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - But the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to set them free, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 -

Now after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck and killed six hundred Philistines with an [fn]oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - And the LORD [fn]looked at him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - But he said to Him, “O Lord, [fn]how am I to save Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal, or will you save him? Whoever will contend for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, since someone has torn down his altar!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 -

Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel [fn]through me, as You have spoken,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 - behold, I am putting a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will save Israel [fn]through me, as You have spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 -

And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to hand Midian over to them, otherwise Israel would [fn]become boastful, saying, ‘My own [fn]power has saved me.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And the LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you with the three hundred men who lapped, and will hand the Midianites over to you; so have all the other people go, each man to his [fn]home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 -

Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son, your son’s son as well, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 -

Now after Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, rose up to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:12 - “And when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to Me, and I saved you from their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:13 - “Yet you abandoned Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - “Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - So Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were in a major dispute with the sons of Ammon; and I did call you, but you did not save me from their hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - “When I saw that you were no deliverer, I [fn]took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD handed them over to me. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - “For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he will begin to save Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s take the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that He may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:8 - So the sons of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that He will save us from the hand of the Philistines!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him as ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have considered My people, because their outcry has come to Me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:1 -

Then Samuel took the flask of oil, poured it on [fn]Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has the LORD not anointed you as ruler over His inheritance?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:27 - But certain [fn]useless men said, “How can this one save us?” And they despised him and did not bring him a gift. But [fn]he kept silent about it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - So the elders of Jabesh said to him, “Allow us seven days to send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 -

Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come, and let’s cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men; perhaps the LORD will work for us, because the LORD is not limited to saving by many or by few!”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:23 - So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle [fn]spread beyond Beth-aven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:39 - “For as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, even if it is in my son Jonathan, he shall assuredly die!” But not one of all the people answered him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 -

Now when Saul had taken control of the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he [fn]inflicted punishment.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - and that this entire assembly may know that the LORD does not save by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD’S, and He will hand you over to us!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 -

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, informed him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death!”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:12 - So Michal let David down through a window, and he went and fled, and escaped.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and [fn]attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and [fn]attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - Then David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines; and he drove away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 -

“Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has restrained you from [fn]shedding blood, and from [fn]avenging yourself by your own hand, now then, may your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be like Nabal.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - this will not become an obstacle to you, or a [fn]troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord’s having [fn]avenged himself. When the LORD deals well with my lord, then remember your slave.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:33 - and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from [fn]bloodshed and from [fn]avenging myself by my own hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 -

Then David said to [fn]himself, “Now I will [fn]perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to safely escape into the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - And David [fn]slaughtered them from the twilight [fn]until the evening of [fn]the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

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