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Lexicon :: Strong's G4991 - sōtēria

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σωτηρία
Transliteration
sōtēria (Key)
Pronunciation
so-tay-ree'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Feminine of a derivative of σωτήρ (G4990) as (properly, abstract) noun
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:965,1132

Strong’s Definitions

σωτηρία sōtēría, so-tay-ree'-ah; feminine of a derivative of G4990 as (properly, abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physically or morally):—deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x

The KJV translates Strong's G4991 in the following manner: salvation (40x), the (one) be saved (1x), deliver (with G1325) (1x), health (1x), saving (1x), that (one) be saved (with G1519) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x
The KJV translates Strong's G4991 in the following manner: salvation (40x), the (one) be saved (1x), deliver (with G1325) (1x), health (1x), saving (1x), that (one) be saved (with G1519) (1x).

  1. deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation

    1. deliverance from the molestation of enemies

    2. in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the soul's safety or salvation

      1. of Messianic salvation

  2. salvation as the present possession of all true Christians

  3. future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.

    Scripture describes a fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and the pleasure of sin. (cf. Arthur W. Pink, A Fourfold Salvation)
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σωτηρία sōtēría, so-tay-ree'-ah; feminine of a derivative of G4990 as (properly, abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physically or morally):—deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.
STRONGS G4991:
σωτηρία, σωτηρίας, ἡ (σωτήρ), deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation: deliverance from the molestation of enemies, Acts 7:25; with ἐξ ἐχθρῶν added, Luke 1:71; preservation (of physical life), safety, Acts 27:34; Hebrews 11:7. in an ethical sense, that which conduces to the soul's safety or salvation: σωτηρία τίνι ἐγένετο, Luke 19:9; ἡγεῖσθαι τί σωτηρίαν, 2 Peter 3:15; in the technical biblical sense, the Messianic salvation (see σῴζω, b.),
a. universally, John 4:22; Acts 4:12; Acts 13:47; Romans 11:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15; Hebrews 2:3; Hebrews 6:9; Jude 1:3; opposed to ἀπώλεια, Philippians 1:28; αἰώνιος σωτηρία, Hebrews 5:9 (for עולָמִים תְּשׁוּעַת, Isaiah 45:17); (add, Mark 16 WH in the (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'); ὁ λόγος τῆς σωτηρίας ταύτης, instruction concerning that salvation which John the Baptist foretold (cf. Winer's Grammar, 237 (223)), Acts 13:26; τό εὐαγγέλιον τῆς σωτηρίας ὑμῶν, Ephesians 1:13; ὁδός σωτερριας, Acts 16:17; κέρας σωτηρίας (see κέρας, b.), Luke 1:69; ἡμέρα σωτηρίας, the time in which the offer of salvation is made, 2 Corinthians 6:2 (from Isaiah 49:8); κατεργάζεσθαι τήν ἑαυτοῦ σωτηρίαν, Philippians 2:12; κληρονομεῖν σωτηρίαν, Hebrews 1:14; (ὁ ἀρχηγός τῆς σωτηρίας, Hebrews 2:10); εἴα σωτηρίαν, unto (the attainment of) salvation, Rom. (Romans 1:16); 10:(Romans 10:1),Romans 10:10; 1 Peter 2:2 (Rec. omits).
b. salvation as the present possession of all true Christians (see σῴζω, b.): 2 Corinthians 1:6; 2 Corinthians 7:10; Philippians 1:19; σωτηρία ἐν ἀφέσει ἁμαρτιῶν, Luke 1:77; σωτηρίας τυχεῖν μετά δόξης αἰωνίου, 2 Timothy 2:10.
c. future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God: Romans 13:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:5, 10; Revelation 12:10; ἐλπίς σωτηρίας, 1 Thessalonians 5:8; κομίζεσθαι σωτηρίαν ψυχῶν, 1 Peter 1:9; ἡ σωτηρία τῷ Θεῷ ἐμῶν (dative of the possessor, namely, ἐστιν (cf. Buttmann, § 129, 22); cf. הַיִשׁוּעָה לַיְהוָה, Psalm 3:9), the salvation which is bestowed on us belongs to God, Revelation 7:10; ἡ σωτηρία... τοῦ Θεοῦ (genitive of the possessor (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 11, 1:a.), for Rec. τῷ Θεῷ) ἡμῶν namely, ἐστιν, Revelation 19:1. (Tragg. (Herodotus), Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, others. The Sept. for יֶשַׁע, יְשׁוּעָה, תְּשׁוּעָה, פְּלֵיטָה, escape.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
45:17; 49:8
Mark
16
Luke
1:69; 1:71; 1:77; 19:9
John
4:22
Acts
4:12; 7:25; 13:26; 13:47; 16:17; 27:34
Romans
1:16; 10:1; 10:10; 11:11; 13:11
2 Corinthians
1:6; 6:2; 7:10
Ephesians
1:13
Philippians
1:19; 1:28; 2:12
1 Thessalonians
5:8; 5:9
2 Thessalonians
2:13
2 Timothy
2:10; 3:15
Hebrews
1:14; 2:3; 2:10; 5:9; 6:9; 9:28; 11:7
1 Peter
1:5; 1:9; 1:10; 2:2
2 Peter
3:15
Jude
1:3
Revelation
7:10; 12:10; 19:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4991 matches the Greek σωτηρία (sōtēria),
which occurs 107 times in 103 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 3 (Psa 18:50–Dan 11:42)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:50 - Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:6 - Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - [[To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.]] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:17 - An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:3 - Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22 - Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:11 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:4 - Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:14 - Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:13 - But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:29 - But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:15 - My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 - For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - [[A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.]] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:26 - He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:14 - The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:15 - The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:21 - I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:28 - Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:155

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:155 - Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:16 - I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:7 - O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:10 - It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 146:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:3 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:4 - For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:7 - He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:14 - Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:2 - Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:9 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:18 - We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 - O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:6 - And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 - The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:17 - But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:13 - I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 - Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:10 - The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:8 - For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:35 - And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6 - Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:22 - How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:42 - He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

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