יְשׁוּעָה
salvation
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H3444 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 2:1 בִּ/ישׁוּעָתֶֽ/ךָ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 הַ/יְשׁוּעָ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ישועה (yᵉshûwʻâh) means “salvation.” The word gravitates to Psalms (59%), then Isaiah and Exodus. It appears 76 verses across 12 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 49:18. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3444 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 76
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 76 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #519
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 519 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 76 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 76 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 49 verses · 64%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 23 verses · 30%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Salvation 54×, Is the health 2×
- American Standard Version: Salvation 50×, Deliverance 3×, He is become my salvation 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Salvation 65×, Savior 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Salvation 57×, Salvation of 10×, Is my salvation 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3444 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3444 across 77 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3444 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3444 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. welfare, prosperity: כעב עברה ישׁעתי Jb 30:15 as a cloud my prosperity passed away. e.g. Job 30:15
- 2. deliverance: והיתה לי לישׁועה and thou wilt be to me for deliverance 2 S 10:11 = 1 Ch 19:12. e.g. 2 Samuel 10:11
- 3. salvation by God, primarily from external evils, but often with added spiritual idea: Gn 49:18 (poem), Is 33:2; 52:7, 10; 59:11; 60:18; Jon 2:10 ψ 3:3, 9; 14:7 = 53:7, 22:2; 35:3; 62:2; 69:30; 70:5 (= תשׁועה 40:17), 78:22; 80:3; 91:16; 96:2 = 1 Ch 16:23, 106:4; 140:8; Jb 13:16; with verbs of rejoicing בישׁועה 1 S 2:1; Is 25:9 ψ 9:15; 13:6; 35:9; יְשׁוּעָה יָשִׁית חוֹמוֹת Is 26:1 salvation will he set as walls; cf. phr. אֱלֹהֵי ישׁ׳ ψ 88:2, אֵל ישׁ׳ Is 12:2, צוּר ישׁ׳ Dt 32:15 (song), ψ 89:27, cf. צוּרִי וִישׁוּעָתִי 62:3, 7; יוֹם ישׁ׳ Is 49:8; מַעַיְנֵי הישׁ׳ 12:3 wells of salvation; pl. יְשׁוּעוֹת (intensive), of י׳: יְשׁוּעוֹת פָּנַי ψ 42:6 the salvation of my face (person; פניו MT error, פני 𝔊 𝔖), v 12 43:5; כּוֹס ישׁועות 116:13 cup commemorating saving acts (of drink-offering); further ψ 119:123, 155, 166, 174; ‖ צְדָקָה Is 51:6, 8; 56:1; 62:1 ψ 98:2, 3; יְשׁוּעָתִי עַד־קְצֵה הָאָרֶץ Is 49:6 my salvation unto the ends of the earth; בְּכָל־גּוֹיִם יְשׁוּעָתֶ֑ךָ ψ 67:3 among all nations thy salvation. e.g. Genesis 49:18
- 4. victory: c. עָשָׂה work victory 1 S 14:45; Is 26:18; elsewhere of victories wrought by Yahweh for his people Ex 15:2 (song) Is 12:2; Hb 3:8 ψ 20:6; 21:2, 6; 44:5; 68:20; 118:14, 15, 21; phrases: פעל יְשׁוּעוֹת do victories 74:12; חֹסֶן יְשׁוּעֹת Is 33:6 store of victories; מִגְדּוֹל יְשׁוּעוֹת 2 S 22:51 Qr tower of victories (Kt מַגְדִּיל and so ‖ ψ 18:51); מָעוֹז יְשׁוּעוֹת ψ 28:8 stronghold of victories; רְאוּ אֶת־יְשׁוּעַת י׳ Ex 14:13 (J) see the victory of Yahweh, 2 Ch 20:17; כּוֹבַע יְשׁוּעָה Is 59:17 helmet of victory; יְפָאֵר עֲנָוִים בִּישׁוּעָה ψ 149:4 he will beautify the meek with victory.—Cf. the syn. תְּשׁוּעָה, infr. e.g. 1 Samuel 14:45
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. salvation;—יְשׁ׳ ψ 119:155 + 18 times; יְשׁוּעָ֫תָה 3:3 Jon 2:10; יְשֻׁעָ֫תָה ψ 80:3; cstr. יְשׁוּעַת Ex 14:13 + 4 times; sf. יְשֻׁעָתִי Jb 30:15; יְשׁוּעָתִי ψ 62:2 + 12 times, + 25 times sfs.; pl. יְשׁוּעוֹת 2 S 22:51 + 6 times; יְשׁוּעֹת ψ 42:12 + 3 times; יְשֻׁעוֹת 53:7;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ישע (yâshaʻ) (H3467) — to save.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יְשׁוּעָה
- redemption, help. Midr. Till. to Ps. XIV; Lev. R. s. 24; M. Kat. 5ᵃ יְשׁוּעָתוֹ של חקב"ה the salvation by the Lord; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 59 distinct written forms H3444 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3444, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- הושע Hôwshêaʻ H1954 Hosea
- הושעיה Hôwshaʻyâh H1955 Hoshaiah
- ישעי Yishʻîy H3469 Ishi
- ישעיה Yᵉshaʻyâh H3470 Isaiah
- מישע Mêyshâʻ H4337 Mesha
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 64 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 76 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 49:18
- Exodus 14:13
- Deuteronomy 32:15
- 1 Samuel 2:1
- 2 Samuel 22:51
- 1 Chronicles 16:23
- 2 Chronicles 20:17
- Job 13:16
- Psalms 3:2
- Isaiah 12:2
- Jonah 2:9
- Habakkuk 3:8
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
