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save

Meaning of “save”

Sense 1: To rescue, deliver, preserve, keep alive, heal, recover, or bring safely through. Sense 2: Except or apart from.

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233 occurrences226 verses40 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 12:12

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2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 2:6 · retained source text

But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot conteine him? who am I then that I should build him an house? saue onely to burne sacrifice before him?

1611 marginal noteHeb. hath retained, or obtained strength.

1611 marginal note1.King. 8.27. 2.chro. 6.18.

2 Chronicles 5:10
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 5:10 · retained source text

There was nothing in the Arke saue the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a couenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

1611 marginal noteOr, where.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 10.2,5.

2 Chronicles 18:30
Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 18:30 · retained source text

Now the king of Syria had commaunded the captaines of the charets that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, saue onely with the king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:17
And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 21:17 · retained source text

And they came vp into Iudah, and brake into it, and caried away all the substance that was found in the kings house, and his sonnes also and his wiues; so that there was neuer a sonne left him, saue Iehoahaz, the yongest of his sonnes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. caried captiue.

1611 marginal noteOr, Ahaziah, chap. 22.1.or, Azariah, ver. 6.

2 Chronicles 23:6
But let none come into the house of the Lord, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the Lord.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 23:6 · retained source text

But let none come into the house of the LORD, saue the Priests, & they that minister of the Leuites, they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keepe the watch of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 23:11
Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 23:11 · retained source text

Then they brought out the kings sonne, and put vpon him the Crowne, and gaue him the Testimony, and made him King: and Iehoiada and his sonnes anointed him, and said, God saue the King.

1611 marginal noteHebr. Let the King liue.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 17.18.

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