שְׁזַב
shᵉzab · H7804 · Aramaic · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to save
Causative action by which humans or deities come to the rescue of humans in need
ExamplesDaniel 3:15 “Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can rescue you from my hands?”
Daniel 3:17 “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will rescue us from your hand, O king.
Daniel 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and rescued His servants who put their trust in Him, violating the king’s command, and surrendered their bodies rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
How it’s used In 5 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
9 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 4
- Not stated (infinitive) 3
- הוּאare 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- ךָּyou 2
- וֹhim 1
- נוּus 1
- כֶםyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- מִןfrom+ יַדhand, power 3
- מִןfrom+ אַרְיֵהlion 1
- מִןfrom+ אַתּוּןfurnace 1
- לto/for+ דָּנִיֵּאלDaniel 1
- לto/for+ עֲבַדservant 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁזַבdeliver 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 3
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- פָּלַט pâlaṭ · H6403 · to escape, to get away, to be saved
- פָּלַט means 'escape, deliver' and overlaps with שְׁזַב in the sense of being rescued or delivered from danger, though פָּלַט can emphasize the act of escaping while שְׁזַב emphasizes the act of being delivered by another.
In the other Testament 3 words
- ῥύομαι rhýomai · G4506 · to rescue, to deliver
- ῥύομαι is the standard Greek verb for 'deliver, rescue' and is the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew/Aramaic שְׁזַב in contexts of deliverance from danger or enemies, particularly common in Daniel where both terms appear in rescue contexts.
- σώζω sṓzō · G4982 · to deliver, to rescue, to make safe
- σῴζω is another primary Greek verb for 'save, deliver' that overlaps semantically with שְׁזַב, though σῴζω has broader application including spiritual salvation while שְׁזַב focuses more narrowly on physical deliverance.
- ἐξαιρέω exairéō · G1807 · to take out, to remove, to set free
- ἐξαιρέω means 'deliver, rescue, take out' and shares the semantic range of delivering someone from danger or captivity, functioning as a translation equivalent for שְׁזַב in LXX and NT contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Daniel 3:17 has Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego reply, “if it be so, our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will rescue us from your hand, O king.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7804. shezab or shezib שֵׁיזִב verb deliver (probably Shaph`el as loan-word from…
or shezib שֵׁיזִב verb deliver (probably
Shaph`el as loan-word from Assyrian šûzub(u), ušêib, deliver, √ ezêbu (א4 = עזב), DlPr 140 HptGGN 1583, 91; BAS i.13 K§ 43, l, Anm.; שֵׁיזֵב ᵑ7, Syriac , Christian-Palestinian Aramaic SchulthLex. 203, also Nabataean שיזב Cooke255; compare proper name מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵל Biblical Hebrew; Old Aramaic צלמשזב SAC102; see also following article); — Perfect3masculine singular שֵׁיזִב Dan 3:28; Dan 6:28; Imperfect3masculine singular יְשֵׁיזִ֑ב Dan 3:17; suffix יְשֵׁיזְבִנָּךְ Dan 6:17, נְִ֯כבוֺן Dan 3:13; Infinitive suffix לְשֵׁיזָבוּתָךְ Dan 6:21, הֵתּ- Dan 6:15, תַ֑נָּא- Dan 3:17; — deliver (usually with מִן): Dan 3:17b, ל accusative of person Dan 3:28; Dan 6:28b, suffix person Dan 3:15, Dan 3:17a; Dan 6:15; Dan 6:17; Dan 6:21, absolute Dan 6:28a.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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