salvation
soteria denotes the saving outcome sought, received, proclaimed, or awaited, and can also describe concrete deliverance from danger.
The noun most often names the saving outcome connected with faith, proclamation, divine action, or future expectation; a smaller group of passages uses it for concrete deliverance from enemies, danger, or threatened loss.
Senses in use
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Saving outcome received, sought, or awaited · dominant
The noun names an outcome toward which people are directed or which they receive: in 1 Peter 1:9 the APB renders the clause as obtaining the goal of faith, and in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 as obtaining it through the Lord Jesus Christ. It also stands in clauses of proclamation and expectation: Acts 13:26 speaks of a word being sent out, while Hebrews 9:28 describes people expecting it.
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Concrete deliverance from threat or loss · occasional
In Luke 1:71, the accusative singular occurs in a clause the APB renders as deliverance from enemies and from those who hate. Acts 27:34 uses the same accusative singular in an urgent appeal to eat, followed by the assurance that no hair will perish; Acts 7:25 likewise places it in a statement about God granting deliverance through Moses' hand.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun with “salvation,” including clauses about receiving, proclaiming, and expecting it. In concrete-threat contexts it instead uses “deliverance” in Acts 7:25 and Luke 1:71 and “preservation” in Acts 27:34; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.