ya.sah denotes bringing people, a city, or a flock out of danger, especially hostile power.

The supplied verses show deliverance from danger, most often from enemies, battle, or an oppressor's hand. The same usage also appears in appeals for help amid distress and in statements of protection for a city, children, and a flock.

1. Rescuing from danger or hostile power · dominant

   Hiphil forms repeatedly name an agent who brings people or places out from under an enemy or threat: in 1 Samuel 9:16 the appointed leader is to act against the Philistines, and in 2 Kings 19:34 the city is defended. In 1 Samuel 14:6 the infinitive construct occurs in Jonathan's statement that the LORD can act in battle "by many or by few"; in Ezekiel 34:22 the first-person sequential perfect concerns the flock no longer being plundered. Niphal forms present those rescued as receiving that outcome, as in Deuteronomy 33:29 and Jeremiah 17:14.

   1 Samuel 9:161 Samuel 14:62 Kings 19:34Ezekiel 34:22Deuteronomy 33:29Jeremiah 17:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly uses "save," "deliver," "rescue," and "help" in clauses concerning danger, enemies, distress, or protection. These are verse-level renderings rather than a fixed word-for-word equivalent.