Lexicon
ῥύομαι
rhuomai
G4506
G:V Greek

to rescue

17
Occurrences
9
Books
Greek
Language

rhuomai describes bringing people out from death, evil, oppression, trial, or other threatening conditions.

The attested use consistently concerns deliverance from a threatening condition or opponent: death, persecution, evil people, darkness, trial, enemies, or evil. The forms occur in statements of past deliverance, requests for it, and expectations that it will yet be given.

Senses in use

  1. Bring someone out from danger or hostile threat · dominant

    In 2 Corinthians 1:10, the aorist and future forms occur in the statement that God brought the speakers through “so great a death” and will do so again. The same use covers rescue from lawless oppression in 2 Peter 2:7, from trial in 2 Peter 2:9, from perverse and evil people in 2 Thessalonians 3:2, from persecutions in 2 Timothy 3:11, and from the authority of darkness in Colossians 1:13.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “rescued” and “rescue,” while 2 Corinthians 1:10 and Romans 7:24 use “delivered” or “deliver.” These are renderings of whole translated clauses to the Greek term.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture