to rescue
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
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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.