יֵ֫שַׁע
salvation
also: deliverance, rescue, safety, welfare fuller range ↓
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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 29 times (81%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (19%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 36 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3468 appears — 35 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
2 Samuel 4 verses
- 2 Samuel 22:3 יִשְׁעִ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My savior, you save me from violence.
- 2 Samuel 22:36 יִשְׁעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You have also given me the shield of your salvation; Your gentleness has made me great.
- 2 Samuel 22:47 יִשְׁעִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh lives; Blessed be my rock; Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
- 2 Samuel 23:5 יִשְׁעִ֥/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Most assuredly my house is not so with God; Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he doesn't make it grow.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 20 verses
- Psalms 12:5 בְּ֝/יֵ֗שַׁע prep + n c ms "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
- Psalms 18:2 יִ֝שְׁעִ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalms 18:35 יִ֫שְׁעֶ֥/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
- Psalms 18:46 יִשְׁעִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
- Psalms 20:6 יֵ֣שַׁע n c ms cs 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 24:5 יִשְׁעֽ/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.
- Psalms 25:5 יִשְׁעִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
- Psalms 27:1 וְ֭/יִשְׁעִ/י conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalms 27:9 יִשְׁעִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
- Psalms 50:23 בְּ/יֵ֣שַׁע prep + n c ms cs Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
- Psalms 51:12 יִשְׁעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
- Psalms 62:7 יִשְׁעִ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
- Psalms 65:5 יִשְׁעֵ֑/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, Of those who are far away on the sea;
- Psalms 69:13 יִשְׁעֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
- Psalms 79:9 יִשְׁעֵ֗/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
- Psalms 85:4 יִשְׁעֵ֑/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp Turn us, God of our salvation, And cause your indignation toward us to cease.
- Psalms 85:7 וְ֝/יֶשְׁעֲ/ךָ֗ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.
- Psalms 85:9 יִשְׁע֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
- Psalms 95:1 יִשְׁעֵֽ/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
- Psalms 132:16 יֶ֑שַׁע n c ms Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 17:10 יִשְׁעֵ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.
- Isaiah 45:8 יֶ֗שַׁע n c ms Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created it.
- Isaiah 51:5 יִשְׁעִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.
- Isaiah 61:10 יֶ֔שַׁע n c ms I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isaiah 62:11 יִשְׁעֵ֖/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Micah 1 verse
Habakkuk 2 verses
- Habakkuk 3:13 לְ/יֵ֣שַׁע לְ/יֵ֖שַׁע prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms You went forth for the salvation of your people, For the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
- Habakkuk 3:18 יִשְׁעִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
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.
The Hebrew noun ישע centers on the idea of “salvation.” The word gravitates to Psalms (57%), then Isaiah and 2 Samuel. It appears 35 verses across 7 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 22:3. Beyond “salvation” it also covers “deliverance”, “rescue”, and “safety” — see its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3468 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 →
- 35
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 35 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #990
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 990 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 35 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 35 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 23 verses · 66%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 34%
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 28×, Safety 3×
- American Standard Version: Salvation 23×, God of our salvation 3×, Safety 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Salvation 30×, Safety 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Salvation 27×, Salvation of 4×, Safety 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3468 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H3468 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 H3468 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H3468 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 3 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. safety, welfare, prosperity 2 S 23:5 ψ 12:6 Jb 5:4, 11. e.g. 2 Samuel 23:5
- 2. salvation, i.e. primarily physical rescue, by God, often with added spiritual idea: Is 62:11 ψ 69:14; 85:8, 10; יֵשַׁע אֱלֹהִים salvation from God ψ 50:23; used as infin. with acc. לְיֵשַׁע Hb 3:13(×2) (see Ew§ 239 a); accordingly Yahweh is אוֹרִי וְיִשְׁעִי my light and my salvation ψ 27:1; צוּר ישׁע 95:1; קֶרֶן ישׁע 18:3 = 2 S 22:3; אֱלֹהֵי ישׁע Is 17:10; Mi 7:7; Hb 3:18 ψ 18:47 = אֱלֹהֵי צוּר ישׁע 2 S 22:47, ψ 24:5; 25:5; 27:9; 65:6; 79:9; 85:5; 1 Ch 16:35; מָגֵן ישׁ׳ ψ 18:36 = 2 S 22:36; על אלהים ישׁעי ψ 62:8; ‖ צְדָקָה Is 45:8; 51:5; 61:10; שְׂשׂוֹן יִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ ψ 51:14 joy of thy salvation; כֹּהֲנֶיהָ אַלְבִּישׁ ישׁ׳ 132:16 her priests will I clothe with salvation. e.g. Isaiah 62:11
- 3. victory: גְּבוּרוֹת יֵשַׁע יְמִינוֹ ψ 20:7 the mighty deeds of the victory of his right hand. e.g. Psalms 20:7
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.m. Is 51:5 deliverance, rescue, salvation, also safety, welfare;—יֵ֫שַׁע ψ 20:7 + 4 times; יֶ֫שַׁע Jb 5:11 + 4 times; sf. יִשְׁעִי 2 S 22:3 + 11 times, + 14 times sfs.;—
— 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.
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 30 distinct written forms H3468 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 H3468, 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 29 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 35 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
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.
