Word

ῥύομαι

rhýomai · G4506 · Greek · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

to rescue, to deliver

To rescue from danger, with the implication that the danger in question is severe and acute

Examples
Matthew 6:13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’
Matthew 27:43 “HE HAS TRUSTED IN GOD; LET GOD RESCUE Him now, IF HE TAKES PLEASURE IN HIM; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
Luke 1:74 To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, Would serve Him without fear,

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

17 occurrences in 9 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 4
Not stated (participle) 3
Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

9 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐγώI, we 7
δίκαιοςrighteous 1
εὐσεβήςdevout 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 12 groups

Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

καίand 1
νῦνnow 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 3 groups

θεόςGod 2
ἸησοῦςJesus 1
πατήρfather 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἥκωto come, to have come 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

εἴδωto know 1
πείθωto persuade, to be confident, to trust 1
προσεύχομαιto pray 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

נָצַל nâtsal · H5337 · remove (violently), to pluck out, to snatch from: Hebrew נָצַל and Greek ῥύομαι both denote forcible extraction or deliverance from danger, forming a standard translation equivalent across LXX rescue/deliverance contexts with overlapping semantic ranges (rescue, deliver, preserve).
פָּלַט pâlaṭ · H6403 · to escape, to get away, to be saved: Greek ῥύομαι and Hebrew פָּלַט share the core semantic domain of rescue/deliverance from danger, both denoting the action of drawing someone out of peril to safety, with frequent alignment in rescue contexts across both testaments.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To rescue, to deliver21.23: The verb describes drawing someone out of danger to safety. Jesus teaches His disciples to pray, “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Matthew 6:13).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ῥύομαιrhýomai · G4506ῥύμη rhýmē · G4505 · narrow street, lane, alley · 4×ῥύσις rhýsis · G4511 · to flow, a flow, loss of blood · 3×ῥυτίς rhytís · G4512 · wrinkle · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon future ῤύσομαι; 1 aorist ἐρρυσάμην G (ἐρρυσάμην R, so T in 2 Cor 1:10; 2 Pet 2:7; L…

future ῤύσομαι; 1 aorist ἐρρυσάμην G (ἐρρυσάμην R, so T in 2 Cor 1:10; 2 Pet 2:7; L everywhere except in 2 Tim 3:11 text) and ἐρυσαμην (so Tr WH everywhere, T in Col 1:13; 2 Tim 3:11; L text in 2 Tim 3:11); a deponent middle verb, in later Greek with the 1 aorist passive ἐρρύσθην G (ἐρρύσθην R), and (so L T Tr WH in 2 Tim 4:17) ἐρυσθην; (on the doubling of rho ῥ, and the breathing, see in Rho); from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for הִצִּיל; also for גָּאַל, פִּלֵּט (to cause to escape, to deliver), חָלַץ (to draw out), מִלֵּט, הושִׁיעַ, etc.; from Ρ᾽ΥΩ to draw, hence, properly, to draft, to oneself, to rescue, to deliver: τινα, Mt 27:43; 2 Pet 2:7; τινα ἀπό τίνος (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6 a.), Mt 6:13; Lk 11:4 R L; 1 Thess 1:10 (here T Tr WH ἐκ; 2 Tim 4:18); 1 aorist passive, Rom 15:31; 2 Thess 3:2; τινα ἐκ τίνος (Winer's Grammar, as above): Rom 7:24 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 41 a. 5); 2 Cor 1:10; Col 1:13; 2 Tim 3:11; 2 Pet 2:9; 2 Pet 2:1 aorist passive, Lk 1:74; 2 Tim 4:17; ὁ ῤυόμενος, the deliverer, Rom 11:26 (after Isa 59:20).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Cause To Be Safe, Free from Danger17 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0