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
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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