- Transliteration: Sozo

- Phonetic: sode'-zo

- Definition:

1. to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction

a. one (from injury or peril)

1. to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health

2. to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue

b. to save in the technical biblical sense

1. negatively 1b

c. to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment 1b

d. to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance

- Origin: "from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saoz, "safe")"

- TDNT entry: 23:05,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From a primary word σῶς sō s̄ (contraction for the obsolete σάος saos safe); to save that is deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal preserve save (self) do well be (make) whole.