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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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First occurrence: Genesis 12:12

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Numbers 32:12
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 32:12 · retained source text

Saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun: for they haue wholly followed the LORD.

Deuteronomy 1:36
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 1:36 · retained source text

Saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I giue the land that he hath troden vpon, and to his children, because hee hath wholly followed the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHeb. fulfilled to goe after.

Deuteronomy 15:4
save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 15:4 · retained source text

Saue when there shall bee no poore among you: for the LORD shal greatly blesse thee in the land which the LORD thy God giueth thee for an inheritance to possesse it:

1611 marginal noteOr, to the end that there be no poore among you.

Deuteronomy 20:4
For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 20:4 · retained source text

For the LORD your God is hee that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to saue you.

Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 20:16 · retained source text

But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth giue thee for an inheritance, thou shalt saue aliue nothing that breatheth:

Deuteronomy 22:27
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 22:27 · retained source text

For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damosel cried, and there was none to saue her.

Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 28:29 · retained source text

And thou shalt grope at noone dayes, as the blind gropeth in darknes, and thou shalt not prosper in thy waies: and thou shalt be onely oppressed, and spoiled euermore, and no man shal saue thee.

Joshua 2:13
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joshua 2:13 · retained source text

And that ye will saue aliue my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue, and deliuer our liues from death.

Joshua 10:6
¶ And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joshua 10:6 · retained source text

¶ And the men of Gibeon sent vnto Ioshua to the campe to Gilgal, saying, Slacke not thy hand from thy seruants, come vp to vs quickly, and saue vs, and helpe vs: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountaines, are gathered together against vs.

Joshua 11:13
But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 11:13 · retained source text

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, saue Hazor onely; that did Ioshua burne.

1611 marginal noteHebr. on their heape.

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