“rescue or safety (physically or morally)”
Definition
Strong’s Definition
rescue or safety (physically or morally)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a saving, preservation, Acts 27:34; Heb. 11:7; deliverance, Lk. 1:69, 71; Acts 7:25; salvation, spiritual and eternal, Lk. 1:77; 19:9; Acts 4:12; Rev. 7:10; a being placed in a condition of salvation by an embracing of the Gospel, Rom. 10:1, 10; 2 Tim. 3:15; means or opportunity of salvation, Acts 13:26; Rom. 11:11; Heb. 2:3; ἡ σωτηρία, the promised deliverance by the Messiah, Jn. 4:22
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Etymology
feminine of a derivative of G4990 (σωτήρ) as (properly, abstract) noun;
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“And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consol…”