- Original: σώζω
- Transliteration: Sozo
- Phonetic: sode'-zo
- Definition:
1. to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
a. 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
b. to save in the technical biblical sense
1. negatively 1b
c. to deliver from the penalties of the messianic judgment 1b
d. to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the messianic deliverance
- Origin: from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saoz, safe)
- TDNT entry: 23:05,1
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: From a primary word σῶς sōs̄(contraction for the obsolete σάος saos safe); to save that is deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal preserve save (self) do well be (make) whole.
Total KJV Occurrences: 79
• healed, 3
Mar 5:23;
Luke 8:36; Act 14:9
• preserve, 1
2 Timothy 4:18
• save, 28
Mat 1:21; Mat 8:25; Mat 14:30; Mat 27:40; Mat 27:42; Mat 27:49; Mar 15:30; Mar 15:31;
Luke 23:35;
Luke 23:37;
Luke 23:39; Act 2:40;
Romans 11:14;
1 Corinthians 1:21;
1 Corinthians 7:16(2);
1 Corinthians 9:22;
1 Timothy 1:15;
1 Timothy 4:16;
Hebrews 5:7;
Hebrews 7:25; Jam 1:21; Jam 2:14; Jam 4:12; Jam 5:15; Jam 5:20;
1 Peter 3:21;
Jude 1:23
• saved, 41
Mat 19:25; Mat 27:42; Mar 10:26; Mar 15:31;
Luke 13:23;
Luke 18:26;
Luke 23:35; Act 2:21; Act 2:47; Act 4:12; Act 11:14; Act 15:1; Act 15:11; Act 16:30; Act 16:31; Act 27:20; Act 27:31;
Romans 5:9;
Romans 5:10;
Romans 8:24;
Romans 9:27;
Romans 10:9;
Romans 10:13;
Romans 11:26;
1 Corinthians 1:18;
1 Corinthians 3:15;
1 Corinthians 5:5;
1 Corinthians 10:33;
1 Corinthians 15:2;
2 Corinthians 2:15; Eph 2:5; Eph 2:8;
1 Thessalonians 2:16;
2 Thessalonians 2:10;
1 Timothy 2:4;
1 Timothy 2:15;
2 Timothy 1:9;
Titus 3:5;
1 Peter 4:18;
Jude 1:5;
Revelation 21:24
• well, 1
Joh 11:12
• whole, 5
Mat 9:21; Mat 9:22; Mar 5:28; Mar 6:56; Act 4:9