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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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Acts 2:40
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, save yourselves from this untoward generation.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 2:40 · retained source text

And with many other words did hee testifie and exhort, saying, Saue your selues from this vntoward generation.

Acts 20:23
save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Acts 20:23 · retained source text

Saue that the holy Ghost witnesseth in euery city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

1611 marginal noteOr, waite for me.

Acts 21:25
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 21:25 · retained source text

As touching the Gentiles which beleeue, wee haue written and concluded, that they obserue no such thing, saue onely that they keepe themselues from things offered to idoles, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

1611 marginal noteChap. 15.20.

Acts 27:43
But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
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1611 witness · Acts 27:43 · retained source text

But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land:

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