ἀνασώζω
rescue, save
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀνασώζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 24 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 14:13 ἀνασώζω And one of them that had been rescued came and told Abram the Hebrew; and he lived by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were confederates with Abram.
- 2 Kings 19:31 ἀνασώζω For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6 ἀνασώζω And the posts went with the letters from the king and the princes to all Israel and Juda, according to the command of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, and bring back them that have escaped even those that were left of the hand of the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 26:6 ἀνασώζω Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the forces at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
- Jeremiah 27:28 ἀνασώζω A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance that comes from the Lord our God.
- Jeremiah 27:29 ἀνασώζω Summon many against Babylon, even every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her people escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
- Jeremiah 28:6 ἀνασώζω Flee you⌃ out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every one his soul: and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord; he is rendering to her a recompence.
- Jeremiah 28:50 ἀνασώζω Go forth of the land, you⌃ that escape, and stay not; you⌃ that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
- Jeremiah 51:14 ἀνασώζω and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Juda, to which they hope in their hearts to return: they shall not return, but only they that escape.
- Lamentations 2:22 ἀνασώζω THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all my enemies.
- Ezekiel 6:8 ἀνασώζω When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when you⌃ are scattered in the countries;
- Ezekiel 6:9 ἀνασώζω then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 7:16 ἀνασώζω But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will kill all the rest, every one for his iniquities.
- Ezekiel 7:16 ἀνασώζω But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will kill all the rest, every one for his iniquities.
- Ezekiel 14:22 ἀνασώζω yet, behold, there shall be men left in it, the escaped thereof, who shall lead forth of it sons and daughters: behold, they shall go forth to you, and you⌃ shall see their ways and their thoughts: and you⌃ shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even all the evils which I have brought upon it.
- Ezekiel 24:26 ἀνασώζω that in that day he that escapes shall come to you, to tell it you in your ears?
- Ezekiel 24:27 ἀνασώζω In that day your mouth shall be opened to him that escapes; you shall speak, and shall be no longer dumb: and you shall be for a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 33:21 ἀνασώζω And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken.
- Joel 2:3 ἀνασώζω Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none of them escape.
- Joel 3:5 ἀνασώζω because you⌃ have taken my silver and my gold, and you⌃ have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;
- Amos 9:1 ἀνασώζω I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Strike the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will kill the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered.
- Obadiah 1:14 ἀνασώζω Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.
- Zechariah 2:11 ἀνασώζω And many nations shall flee for refuge to the Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to him, and they shall dwell in the midst of you: and you shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
- Zechariah 8:7 ἀνασώζω Thus says the Lord Almighty; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and the west country;
About this word
About this word
ἀνασώζω (anasṓzō), “rescue, save,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 24 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →