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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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James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 1:21 · retained source text

Wherefore lay apart all filthinesse, and superfluitie of naughtinesse, & receiue with meeknesse the engrafted word, which is able to saue your soules.

James 2:14
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 2:14 · retained source text

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say hee hath faith, and haue not workes? can faith saue him?

James 4:12
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 4:12 · retained source text

There is one Lawgiuer, who is able to saue, and to destroy: who art thou that iudgest another?

James 5:15
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 5:15 · retained source text

And the prayer of Faith shall saue the sicke, and the Lord shall raise him vp: and if hee haue committed sinnes, they shall be forgiuen him.

James 5:20
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · James 5:20 · retained source text

Let him know, that hee which conuerteth the sinner from the errour of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shall hide a multitude of sinnes.

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