Something saved , i.e. (abstractly) deliverance ; hence, aid , victory , prosperity
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יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah) is a Hebrew feminine noun for salvation, deliverance, victory, or help. It belongs to the H3467 yasha root family, which also stands behind Hebrew personal names such as Yeshua and Yehoshua.
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יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah) is a Hebrew feminine noun for salvation, deliverance, victory, or help. It belongs to the H3467 yasha root family, which also stands behind Hebrew personal names such as Yeshua and Yehoshua.
The BSB source-word alignment has 78 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include salvation (15), of salvation (7), in Your salvation (5), my salvation (5), the salvation (5).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 49:18. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (45), Isaiah (19), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (2).
יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah) is a Hebrew feminine noun for salvation, deliverance, victory, or help. It belongs to the H3467 yasha root family, which also stands behind Hebrew personal names such as Yeshua and Yehoshua. The local Hebrew index currently counts about 77 H3444 uses, with notable examples in Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, and Isaiah.
Genesis 49:18 says, 'I await Your salvation, O Lord.' This earlier occurrence prevents Exodus 15:2 from being called the noun's first use, while the Song of the Sea remains a major corporate salvation song: 'The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.' Isaiah 12:2 later reuses that song language in a new prophetic setting.
Psalm 3:8 declares that salvation belongs to the Lord and asks for blessing on his people. The statement locates deliverance with God in that crisis, but the preposition should not be pressed into a metaphysical claim that human instruments or faithful responses are irrelevant.
Psalm 62:1 says that the psalmist's salvation comes from God while the soul waits in silence. The psalm contrasts trust in God with unreliable human power and wealth; it does not require the claim that every other form of creaturely help is false in every circumstance.
Isaiah 49:6 speaks of God's salvation reaching the end of the earth through the Servant's mission, and Isaiah 52:10 says that all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of Israel's God. Acts 13:47 later quotes Isaiah 49:6 within apostolic mission, providing an explicit canonical reuse without erasing the Servant passage's Israel-centered setting.
Matthew 1:21 connects the name Jesus with his mission to save his people from their sins, and Luke 2:30 calls the child God's salvation. These texts support a canonical name-and-mission connection through the shared saving root family. They do not make H3444 the direct lexical form of the name or turn every OT deliverance occurrence into a prediction of Jesus.
For the preacher, יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah) traces divine rescue through prayer, song, national deliverance, and prophetic hope. Its scope must be governed by each passage before the wider canonical salvation theme is drawn.
יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah) appears about 77 times in the local Hebrew index. It can name salvation, deliverance, victory, or help. Representative anchors include waiting for the Lord's salvation (Gen 49:18), the Song of the Sea (Exod 15:2), salvation belonging to the Lord (Ps 3:8), God as the psalmist's salvation (Ps 62:1), and salvation reaching the end of the earth (Isa 49:6; 52:10). Yeshua and Jesus belong to the same saving-root name family, but the proper name is not simply the H3444 noun reused unchanged.
The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
The Song of the Sea celebrates the Lord's concrete rescue at the sea. Genesis 49:18 contains an earlier H3444 occurrence, so Exodus 15:2 is a foundational corporate song rather than the noun's first use. Isaiah 12:2 and Psalm 118:14 later reuse the strength, song, and salvation wording in their own contexts.
Salvation belongs to the Lord; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
The closing line locates salvation with the Lord and asks for blessing on his people within David's crisis. The Hebrew preposition supports translations such as 'salvation belongs to the Lord,' but it should not be pressed into a claim that God never works through human instruments. Revelation 7:10 offers a later canonical parallel in heavenly worship.
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
The Isaianic yeshuah-song quoting the Exodus: 'hinneh El yeshuati (behold, God is my salvation); I will trust and not be afraid; for my strength and song is YAH YHWH, and he has become my yeshuah.' Isaiah 12 is the thanksgiving song at the end of the judgment-and-restoration oracles of chapters 7-11: after the Assyrian crisis and the messianic hope (Isa 11:1-9), chapter 12 is the song Israel will sing in the day of restoration.
Verse 3 gives the maqor-image: 'you will draw water from the wells of yishuah (salvation)' — the yeshuah of the last day is an inexhaustible spring.
He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
The Servant's mission includes restoring Jacob and becoming a light for the nations so that God's salvation reaches the end of the earth. Acts 13:47 quotes the verse in apostolic mission to Gentiles. That reuse broadens the canonical horizon while preserving Israel's restoration in Isaiah's immediate context.
In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.
The psalmist waits in silence because salvation comes from God. Repeated 'only' language contrasts God with unstable attackers, status, extortion, and wealth. The passage commends quiet trust without declaring every creaturely form of help illegitimate.
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Hebrew word. Comprehensive deliverance and restoration—God's saving action encompassing physical rescue, healing, victory, and covenantal blessing.
Comprehensive deliverance and restoration—God's saving action encompassing physical rescue, healing, victory, and covenantal blessing.
something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity BDB: salvation Usage: deliverance, health, help(-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare.
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יְשׁוּעָה is built from this root:
The repetition of salvation centers the hymn on God’s saving action.Isaiah 12:1-6
Forgetting the God of salvation nullifies the source of true security.Isaiah 17:9-11
The people’s confession centers on God as their deliverer.Isaiah 25:6-12
Salvation forms the city’s true defense.Isaiah 26:1-6
Affirms God as the source of redemptive rescue.Isaiah 46:12-13
Frames the Servant’s mission as redemptive rescue.Isaiah 49:1-6
Highlights the enduring nature of God’s redemptive act.Isaiah 51:4-8
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יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah) names salvation, deliverance, victory, or help within a range of historical, personal, liturgical, and prophetic settings. Genesis 49:18 waits for the Lord's salvation; Exodus 15:2 celebrates rescue at the sea; Psalm 3:8 locates salvation with the Lord; Psalm 62:1 waits for salvation from God; and Isaiah 49:6 extends God's salvation toward the end of the earth through the Servant.
Matthew 1:21 connects Jesus' name with his saving mission, and Luke 2:30 calls the child God's salvation. These canonical connections are strong, but each OT use retains its own scope. Preaching should move from the immediate danger or hope in the passage to the wider saving theme without making human response irrelevant or turning every temporal deliverance into a direct messianic prediction.
Exod.15.2
יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah, H3444) is a feminine noun in the H3467 yasha saving-root family. Related forms include H3468 yesha, the personal names H3442 Yeshua and H3091 Yehoshua, and H3467 participial savior language. Greek translations often use soteria or soterion for salvation vocabulary. Greek Iesous represents the Hebrew or Aramaic personal name Yeshua, not a transliteration of the H3444 noun itself.
NT salvation terms overlap substantially with the Hebrew field, but passage context still determines whether rescue from enemies, forgiveness, healing, mission, or eschatological redemption is in view.
Luke 1 speaks of God as Savior and of a horn of salvation that brings deliverance within Israel's covenant story. Luke 2:30 calls the child God's salvation, and Matthew 1:21 explains Jesus' name through his mission to save his people from their sins. Acts 13:47 quotes Isaiah 49:6 when the gospel is proclaimed among Gentiles. Revelation 7:10 declares that salvation belongs to God and to the Lamb, recalling the shape of Psalm 3:8 without proving direct dependence on H3444 alone.
Romans 1:16 describes the gospel as God's power for salvation to everyone who believes. These texts deepen the canonical salvation theme while retaining their own Greek vocabulary and immediate settings.