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# יָשַׁע

Biblical Hebrew

**deliver** — used 27 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

deliver [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֵ֫שַׁע: n.m. deliverance, rescue, salvation safety, welfare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.;— safety, welfare, prosperity 2 S 23:5 ψ 12:6 Jb 5:4, 11. 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. victory: גְּבוּרוֹת יֵשַׁע יְמִינוֹ ψ 20:7 the mighty deeds of the victory of his right hand.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a deliverer (13); deliverer (8); deliverers (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.11/#tree)

מָֽגִנִּ֥י עַל־אֱלֹהִ֑ים מ֝וֹשִׁ֗יעַ יִשְׁרֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* shield my \[is\].on God a.deliverer of.\[people\].upright of.heart

*JPS 1917:* My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.

[Isaiah 45:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.15/#tree)

אָכֵ֕ן אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל מִסְתַּתֵּ֑ר אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

*Word for word:* truly you \[are\].a.God \[who\].hides.himself O.God of.Israel deliverer

*JPS 1917:* Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e2/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).