Bible word study

Soteria (Strong’s G4991): Meaning in the Bible

Soteria (σωτηρία) is the Greek word numbered G4991 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as rescue or safety (physically or morally). In the King James Bible it is translated deliver, health, salvation, save, saving..

• Original wordσωτηρία
• Transliterationsōtēría
• Pronunciationso-tay-ree'-ah
• Strong’s numberG4991
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. feminine of a derivative of G4990 as (properly, abstract) noun;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Soteria appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Soteria (G4991) stands behind 46 English renderings in 42 verses across 15 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Hebrews (9), Acts (5), Romans (5).

How the King James Bible renders Soteria, by count

• salvation39 of 46 (85 percent)
• of2 of 46 (4 percent)
• saved2 of 46 (4 percent)
• health1 of 46 (2 percent)
• is salvation1 of 46 (2 percent)
• saving1 of 46 (2 percent)

Three places to read Soteria

• Luke 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
• Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

And Christ

Salvation in the Bible is God's rescue and mending of all that is broken, received as a gift and not earned. Its centre is a Person: Jesus, whose very name means the LORD saves.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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