יָשַׁע

yasha · save

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3467 · appears 206 times in the Bible

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What it means

yasha (יָשַׁע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “save”.

Deliver someone from danger or from an oppressor. From this root come the names Joshua and Jesus.

How to say it

ya·sha

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

To rescue someone from danger.
To give victory.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Save: to deliver someone from a danger or from an oppressor. BDB: properly, to be open, wide or free, and from there to be safe; in the causative form, to free, to succor. From this root come יְשׁוּעָה, “salvation” (H3444), and the name Hosea.

The plea “save me” Psalms 3:7 Psalms 6:4
The judges who save Israel from its enemies Judges 2:16 Judges 3:9 Judges 6:15
“Savior” Isaiah 43:11 Isaiah 45:15
“We will be saved” Psalms 80:3
To give victory 2 Samuel 8:6

Historical and cultural background

In Judges it is the verb proper to the judges: YHWH raises up “a savior” who saves Israel from the hand of its oppressors (Judges 2:16; 3:9).

How we translate it

“Save” 117 times, “saved” 52, “savior” 17. The participle מוֹשִׁיעַ is “savior” and not “deliverer”, because ישׁע is “save” (“there is no savior”, Isaiah 43:11), and so it stays apart from נָצַל, “deliver”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

save ×117
saved ×52
savior ×17
saving ×6
salvation ×3
saves ×3
who saves ×3
he saves ×2
deliverers ×1
saviors ×1
others ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

Exodus 2:17
But the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses stood up and saved them and watered their flock.
Exodus 14:30
So YHWH saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.
Numbers 10:9
And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who harasses you, you shall sound an acclamation with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before YHWH your Elohim, and you will be saved from your enemies.
Deuteronomy 20:4
for YHWH your Elohim is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
Deuteronomy 22:27
because he found her in the field; the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, and you will not eat of it; your donkey will be robbed from before you, and it will not return to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by YHWH, the shield of your help and who is the sword of your majesty? Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their high places.”
Joshua 10:6
The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not let your hands go from your servants. Come up to us quickly, save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorite who live in the hill country have gathered against us.”
Joshua 22:22
“El, Elohim, YHWH! El, Elohim, YHWH! He knows, and Israel— let him know! If it was in rebellion or if in unfaithfulness against YHWH, do not save us this day.
Judges 2:16
Then YHWH raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of those who plundered them.
Judges 2:18
Whenever YHWH raised up judges for them, YHWH was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for YHWH was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.
Judges 3:9
The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, and YHWH raised up a savior for the sons of Israel, who saved them: Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, younger than he.
Judges 3:15
The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, and YHWH raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a man left-handed. The sons of Israel sent by his hand tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Judges 3:31
After him there was Shamgar son of Anath; he struck six hundred men of the Philistines with a goad for oxen, and he too saved Israel.
Judges 6:14
YHWH turned to him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”
Judges 6:15
He said to him, “Pardon, Adonai, with what shall I save Israel? Look, my thousand is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in the house of my father.”
Judges 6:31
Joash said to all who stood around him, “Are you going to contend for Baal? Or are you going to save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has torn down his altar.”
Judges 6:36
Gideon said to Elohim, “If you are going to save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
Judges 6:37
look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and on all the land dryness, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
Judges 7:2
YHWH said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel boast against me, saying, ‘My hand has saved me.’
Judges 7:7
YHWH said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will save you and give Midian into your hand; and let all the people go, each to his place.”
Judges 8:22
The men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son and your son’s son, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
Judges 10:1
After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
Judges 10:12
And the Sidonians, Amalek, and Maon oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you from their hand.
Judges 10:13
Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods; therefore I will not again save you.
Judges 10:14
Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”
Judges 12:2
Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were in a great quarrel with the sons of Ammon, and I cried out to you, but you did not save me from their hand.
Judges 12:3
When I saw that you were not saving, I put my life in my hand and crossed over to the sons of Ammon, and YHWH gave them into my hand. So why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”
Judges 13:5
For look, you will be pregnant and bear a son. And no razor shall come up on his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb, and he will begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 4:3
And the people came to the camp, and the elders of Israel said, “Why has YHWH struck us down today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of YHWH, so that it may come among us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”
1 Samuel 7:8
And the sons of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not keep silent from us by ceasing to cry out to YHWH our Elohim, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 9:16
“About this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him as leader over my people Israel; and he will save my people from the hand of the Philistines, for I have seen my people, for their cry has come to me.”
1 Samuel 10:19
But you today have despised your Elohim, who himself saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ So now, present yourselves before YHWH by your tribes and by your thousands.”
1 Samuel 10:27
But wicked men said, “How can this one save us?” And they despised him and did not bring him tribute. But he was like one keeping silent.
1 Samuel 11:3
The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Hold off from us seven days, and let us send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”
1 Samuel 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who carried his weapons, “Come, let us cross over to the post of these uncircumcised; perhaps YHWH will act for us, for there is no hindrance for YHWH to save by many or by few.”
1 Samuel 14:23
YHWH saved Israel on that day, and the war passed beyond Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 14:39
For as YHWH lives, who saves Israel, even if it is in Jonathan my son, then he shall surely die.” But no one answered him among all the people.
1 Samuel 17:47
And all this assembly will know that YHWH does not save with sword and with spear; for the war is YHWH’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

And 166 more times.