יָשַׁע
to save
also: be saved, be delivered fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘deliver’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be liberated’
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
51 verses where H3467 appears in the Hiphil stem in the Book of Psalms. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Psalms
- Psalms 3:7 הוֹשִׁ֘יעֵ֤/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 6:4 ה֝וֹשִׁיעֵ֗/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, And save me for your loving kindness' sake.
- Psalms 7:1 הוֹשִׁיעֵ֥/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
- Psalms 7:10 מ֝וֹשִׁ֗יעַ Hiphil ptcp.act ms My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart.
- Psalms 12:1 הוֹשִׁ֣יעָ/ה Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
- Psalms 17:7 מוֹשִׁ֣יעַ Hiphil ptcp.act ms Show your marvelous loving kindness, You who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
- Psalms 18:27 תוֹשִׁ֑יעַ Hiphil impf 2ms For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.
- Psalms 18:41 מוֹשִׁ֑יעַ Hiphil ptcp.act ms They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
- Psalms 20:6 הוֹשִׁ֥יעַ Hiphil pf 3ms Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand.
- Psalms 20:9 הוֹשִׁ֑יעָ/ה Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h Save, Yahweh; Let the King answer us when we call!
- Psalms 22:21 ה֭וֹשִׁיעֵ/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
- Psalms 28:9 הוֹשִׁ֤יעָ/ה Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h Save your people, And bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, And bear them up forever.
- Psalms 31:2 לְ/הוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/נִי prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.
- Psalms 31:16 ה֖וֹשִׁיעֵ֣/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
- Psalms 34:6 הוֹשִׁיעֽ/וֹ Hiphil pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 34:18 יוֹשִֽׁיעַ Hiphil impf 3ms Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves those who have a crushed spirit.
- Psalms 36:6 תוֹשִׁ֣יעַ Hiphil impf 2ms Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- Psalms 37:40 וְ/יוֹשִׁיעֵ֑/ם conj + Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
- Psalms 44:3 הוֹשִׁ֪יעָ֫ה Hiphil pf 3fs For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, Because you were favorable to them.
- Psalms 44:6 תוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/נִי Hiphil impf 3fs + sfx pers 1cs For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
- Psalms 44:7 ה֭וֹשַׁעְתָּ/נוּ Hiphil pf 2ms + sfx pers 1cp But you have saved us from our adversaries, And have shamed those who hate us.
- Psalms 54:1 הוֹשִׁיעֵ֑/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
- Psalms 55:16 יוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/נִי Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
- Psalms 57:3 וְֽ/יוֹשִׁיעֵ֗/נִי conj + Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Psalms 59:2 הוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
- Psalms 60:5 הוֹשִׁ֖יעָ/ה Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h So that your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Psalms 69:1 הוֹשִׁיעֵ֥/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Save me, God, For the waters have come up to my neck!
- Psalms 69:35 י֘וֹשִׁ֤יעַ Hiphil impf 3ms For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
- Psalms 71:2 וְ/הוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/נִי conj + Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- Psalms 71:3 לְ/הוֹשִׁיעֵ֑/נִי prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, For you are my rock and my fortress.
- Psalms 72:4 י֭וֹשִׁיעַ Hiphil impf 3ms He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.
- Psalms 72:13 יוֹשִֽׁיעַ Hiphil impf 3ms He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
- Psalms 76:9 לְ/הוֹשִׁ֖יעַ prep + Hiphil inf.cs When God arose to judgment, To save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.
- Psalms 86:2 הוֹשַׁ֣ע Hiphil impv 2ms Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
- Psalms 86:16 וְ֝/הוֹשִׁ֗יעָ/ה conj + Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.
- Psalms 98:1 הוֹשִֽׁיעָה Hiphil pf 3fs Sing to Yahweh a new song, For he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
- Psalms 106:8 וַֽ֭/יּוֹשִׁיעֵ/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his mighty power known.
- Psalms 106:10 וַֽ֭/יּוֹשִׁיעֵ/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
- Psalms 106:21 מוֹשִׁיעָ֑/ם Hiphil ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 3mp They forgot God, their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,
- Psalms 106:47 הוֹשִׁיעֵ֨/נוּ Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cp Save us, Yahweh, our God, Gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, To triumph in your praise!
- Psalms 107:13 יוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/ם Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 107:19 יוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/ם Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, He saves them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 108:6 הוֹשִׁ֖יעָ/ה Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h That your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Psalms 109:26 ה֭וֹשִׁיעֵ֣/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
- Psalms 109:31 לְ֝/הוֹשִׁ֗יעַ prep + Hiphil inf.cs For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.
- Psalms 116:6 יְהוֹשִֽׁיעַ Hiphil impf 3ms Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
- Psalms 118:25 הוֹשִׁ֘יעָ֥/ה Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx h Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh; Yahweh, we beg you, now send prosperity.
- Psalms 119:94 הוֹשִׁיעֵ֑/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
- Psalms 119:146 הוֹשִׁיעֵ֑/נִי Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
- Psalms 138:7 וְ/ת֖וֹשִׁיעֵ֣/נִי conj + Hiphil impf 3fs + sfx pers 1cs Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
- Psalms 145:19 וְ/יוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/ם conj + Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
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, ישע (yâshaʻ) means “to save.” It first appears in Exodus 2:17. It turns up in 198 verses across 23 books, a common footprint. The word gravitates to Psalms (29%), then Isaiah and Judges. Read the stem: it spans 2 stems, including Niphal and Hiphil. Dig into 198-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3467 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 →
- 198
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 198 distinct verses.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #232
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 232 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 198 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 198 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 117 verses · 59%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 73 verses · 37%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 4%
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: Save 43×, Saved 10×, Saviour 8×
- American Standard Version: Save 44×, Saved 10×, Saviour 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Save 27×, Save me 17×, Save us 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Save 34×, Save me 18×, Saved 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3467 across 205 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 65 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 H3467 across 204 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 64 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 H3467 across 203 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 48 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3467 across 238 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 64 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
12 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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 12 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.
Niphal
- Pf. 3 m. נוֹשַׁע Dt 33:29; Is 45:17; 2 pl. נוֹשַׁעְתֶּם Nu 10:9; 1 pl. נוֹשָׁ֑עְנוּ Je 8:20; Impf. 3 ms. יִוָּשֵׁעַ Je 30:7; Pr 28:18 + 1 S 14:47 (for MT יַרְשִׁיעַ) 𝔊 We Klo Dr Kit Bu; 3 fs. תִּוָּשַׁע Je 23:6; 33:16; אִוָּשֵׁ֑עָה ψ 119:117 Je 17:14 + 8 times Impf.; Imv. pl. הִוָּֽשְׁעוּ Is 45:22; Pt. נוֹשָׁע ψ 33:16 Zc 9:9;— e.g. Deuteronomy 33:29
- 1. be liberated, saved (proposes placed in freedom; cf. for the fig. הִרְחִיב, מֶרְחָב), from external evils Pr 28:18, by God Is 30:15; 45:22; 64:4; Je 4:14; 8:20; 17:14; 23:6; 33:16 ψ 80:4, 8, 20; 119:117; with מִן, Je 30:7; מֵאֹיְבִים Nu 10:9 (P), 2 S 22:4 = ψ 18:4. e.g. Proverbs 28:18
- 2. be saved in battle, victorious Zc 9:9 ψ 33:16 + 1 S 14:47 v. supr.; עַם נוֹשַׁע ביהוה Dt 33:29 a people victorious in י׳ (poem), cf. Is 45:17. e.g. Zechariah 9:9
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הוֹשִׁיעַ 1 S 9:16 ψ 20:7; הוֹשִׁעַ Zc 12:7; sf. הוֹשִׁיעוֹ ψ 34:7; 1 s. הוֹשַׁעְתִּי Is 43:12 + 4 times, + 14 times Pf.; Impf. יְהוֹשִׁיעַ 1 S 17:47 (v. Dr) ψ 116:6; יוֹשִׁיעַ Is 45:20 + 6 times; וְישַׁע (juss.) Pr 20:22; וַיּוֹשַׁע Ex 14:30 + 7 times; וַיּשַׁע 1 S 23:5 + 2 times; sf. יוֹשִׁיעֲךָ Ho 13:10; יוֹשִׁיעֶנּוּ Is 46:7; ישִׁעֵנוּ 1 S 10:27; ישַׁעֲכֶם Is 35:4 (juss., Dr§ 47. n. 4), etc.; Imv. הוֹשַׁע Je 31:7 ψ 86:2; הוֹשִׁיעָה 2 K 6:26 + 8 times; הוֹשִׁעָה 2 S 14:4 + 19 times Imv.; Inf. abs. הוֹשֵׁעַ 1 S 25:26 + 2 times; cstr. הוֹשִׁיעַ 1 S 14:6 + 14 times + 2 S 3:18 (where read אוֹשִׁיעַ Vrss. Ke We Klo Dr Bu al.), + 7 times Inf.; Pt. מוֹשִׁיעַ Dt 22:27 + 21 times; sf. מוֹשִׁיעָם ψ 106:21 + 8 times sf.; pl. מוֹשִׁיעִים Ob 21 Ne 9:27;— e.g. 1 Samuel 9:16
- 1. deliver, save (proposes give width and breadth to, liberate), in peril, c. acc. pers. vel loc. Ex 2:17 (E) Ju 6:31; 1 S 23:2, 5; 2 S 10:19 = 1 Ch 19:19, 2 K 6:27(×2) ψ 36:7; 72:13 Jb 26:2; with לְ pers. Jos 10:6 (E) Dt 22:27; Ju 10:14; 2 S 10:11 = 1 Ch 19:12 (with acc.), Je 11:12(×2) ψ 72:4; 116:6; abs. הוֹשִׁיעָה הַמֶּלֶךְ Help, O king 2 S 14:4; 2 K 6:26. Specif. save, from evils and troubles: e.g. Exodus 2:17
- a. of heroic men, saving the nation in war Ju 3:31; 6:15; 10:1; 1 S 10:27; Ho 13:10 Je 14:9; these are named מוֹשִׁיעַ saviour Ju 3:9, 15; 2 K 13:5; Is 19:20; Ob 21 Ne 9:27; phr. when they are lacking אֵין מוֹשִׁיעַ Ju 12:3 1 S 11:3; 2 S 22:42 = ψ 18:42, Dt 28:29, 31; Is 47:15; they save מִיַּד from the hand of Ju 2:16; 8:22; 12:2; 13:5 1 S 9:16; Ne 9:27; מכף Ju 6:14; 1 S 4:3; 2 K 16:7. e.g. Judges 3:31
- b. of God, who saves his people from external evils Dt 20:4; Jos 22:22; Ju 3:9; 6:36, 37; 7:7; 10:13; 1 S 14:23, 39; 2 K 14:27; 19:34 = Is 37:35, Is 25:9; 33:22; 35:4; 43:12; 49:25; 63:9; Je 31:7; Ez 34:22; Ho 1:7(×2) Hb 1:2; Zp 3:17, 19; Zc 8:7, 13; 9:16; 10:6; 12:7 ψ 28:9; 69:36; 106:8; 118:25 2 Ch 20:9; or the pious among them Is 38:20; Je 2:27; 17:14 ψ 3:8; 6:5; 7:2; 31:17; 54:3; 55:17; 57:4; 69:2; 71:2, 3; 106:47 = 1 Ch 16:35, ψ 109:26; 119:94, 146; 138:7; Pr 20:22; the king ψ 20:7, 10; David 2 S 8:6, 14; 1 Ch 18:6, 13; thy servant ψ 86:2, 16; חסיד 12:2; דַּכְּאֵי־רוּחַ 34:19; צדיקים 37:40; חוֹסִים 17:7; יראי י׳ 145:19; עם עני 18:28 = 2 S 22:28; עַנְוֵי־אֶרֶץ ψ 76:10; ישׁרי לב 7:11; שַׁח עֵינַיִם Jb 22:29; accordingly God is מוֹשִׁיעַ saviour Is 43:11; 45:15, 21; 63:8; Ho 13:4; מֹשִׁעִי 2 S 22:3; מוֹשִׁיעָם ψ 106:21; מוֹשִׁיעוֹ Je 14:8; מוֹשִׁיעֲךָ Is 43:3; 49:26; 60:16; Je 30:10 = 46:27; is with his people לְהוֹשִׁיעַ Je 15:20; 30:11; 42:11; רַב לְהוֹשִׁיעַ Is 63:1; בֵּית מְצוּדוֹת לְהוֹשִׁיעֵנִי ψ 31:3; Isr. prays הוֹשִׁיעָה יְמִינְךָ O save with thy right hand ψ 60:7 = 108:7, cf. Is 59:1; that from wh. one is saved constr. c. מִן: מִיַּד Ex 14:30 (J) Ju 2:18; 10:12; 1 S 7:8; 2 S 3:18; 2 K 19:19 = Is 37:20, ψ 106:10; 2 Ch 32:22; מֵחָמָס 2 S 22:3; מֵחֶרֶב Jb 5:15; מִכָּל־צָרוֹת ψ 34:7; מִכָּל־רָעוֹת 1 S 10:19; מִצָּרֵינוּ ψ 44:8; מִפִּי אַרְיֵה 22:22; מֹשֹּׁפְטֵי נַפְשׁוֹ 109:31; מֵאַנְשֵׁי דָמִים 59:3; מִמְּצוּקוֹת 107:13, 19. e.g. Deuteronomy 20:4
- c. there is no other salvation, the sword saves not ψ 44:7, or a nation La 4:17, or astrologers Is 47:13, or Asshur Ho 14:4, or other gods Is 45:20; 46:7; Je 2:28. e.g. Psalms 44:7
- 2. save from moral troubles, only in Ez. מִכֹּל מוֹשְׁבֹתֵיהֶם (read, with Co Da al., מְשׁוּבוֹתֵיהֶם) 37:23; מִכֹּל טֻמְאוֹתֵיכֶם 36:29. e.g. Ezekiel 37:23
- 3. give victory to:
- a. of man, c. לְ pers., give victory to, c. agent subj. יַד Ju 7:2; 1 S 25:26, 33, יַד om. v 31; יָמִין Jb 40:14; זְרוֹעַ ψ 44:4. e.g. Judges 7:2
- b. of God, with לְ pers., subj. יָמִין ψ 98:1; זְרוֹעַ Is 59:16; 63:5; Yahweh 1 Ch 18:6, with acc. v 13; abs. gain victory 1 S 14:6; 17:47; וַיּוֹשַׁע תְּשׁוּעָה גְדוֹלָה 1 Ch 11:14. e.g. Psalms 98:1
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
vb. Hiph. deliver; Niph. intrans. and pass. (Arabic وَسِعَ be capacious, ii. make wide, spacious, iv. make sufficient, v. viii. be or live in abundance (v. Dr 1 S 14:45) Ph. n.pr. ישע; Sab. יתֿע (royal epith.), n.pr. אליתֿע, יתֿעאל, עמיתֿע, e.g. MordtZMG 1876, 37; 1893, 409, 416, 417, etc. (yet note strange equiv., תֿ = س); not in Aramaic; MI4 השעני he delivered me, l3 (ב)משע deliverance, Sm and So, (but במת ClGann Dr); n.pr.m. משע l1, also l3 [4] Sm and So, but ישע deliverance, ClGann Dr)—
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Origin: a primitive root
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.
יָשַׁע
- cmp. preced. wds.) [to be strong, to recover.]
- to assist, help, deliver. Sot. 34ᵇ (ref. to י̇ה̇וש̇ע̇, Num. XIII, 17) י֗ה֗ יוֹשִׁ֗יעֲ֗ךָ וכ׳ Yah save thee from &c. Meg. 14ᵃ עתידה … שיושִׁיעַ וכ׳ my mother shall bear a son who will deliver Israel; Sot. 11ᵇ שמוֹשִׁיעַ. Midr. Till. to Ps. XVIII, 4 כשתּוֹשִׁיעֵנִי מאויבי when thou shalt have saved me from my enemies. Snh. 73ᵃ, v. מוֹשִׁיעַ. Ber. IV, 4 הוֹשַׁע וכ׳ help, O Lord &c.; a. fr.—V. הוֹשַׁעְנָא. e.g. Numbers 13:17
- to be saved, released. Midr. Till. l. c. אִוָּשֵׁעַ מן וכ׳ let me be delivered from my enemies, and I shall call the Lord the praised One. Tanḥ. Aḥǎré 12 (ref. to ויושע, Ex. XIV, 30) וַיִוָּשַׁע כתיב כביכול הוא נ׳ it may be read vayivvasha (and he was saved), He, as if it were, was delivered. Ib. בעוה"ז הייתם נוֹשָׁעִים ע"י ב"א in this world (the past) you were delivered through human agencies. e.g. Exodus 14:30
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 166 distinct written forms H3467 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 106 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3467, 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.
Derived from this word
- ישועה yᵉshûwʻâh H3444 salvation
- ישע yeshaʻ H3468 salvation
- מושעה môwshâʻâh H4190 deliverance
- ωσαννα hōsanná G5614 hosanna
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 176 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 198 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
- Exodus 2:17
- Numbers 10:9
- Deuteronomy 20:4
- Joshua 10:6
- Judges 2:16
- 1 Samuel 4:3
- 2 Samuel 3:18
- 2 Kings 6:26
- 1 Chronicles 11:14
- 2 Chronicles 20:9
- Job 5:15
- Psalms 3:7
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.
