she.zav denotes rescue or deliverance, especially from a ruler's hand and a burning furnace.

The attested use concerns rescue from immediate danger: Daniel 3:15 challenges whether any god can deliver from the king's hand, Daniel 3:17 speaks of deliverance from both the burning furnace and the king's hand, and Daniel 3:28 credits God with delivering servants who trusted him.

1. Rescue from threatened harm · dominant

   In Daniel 3:15, the imperfect form occurs in the king's challenge about a god who could deliver from his hand after the threat of the burning furnace. Daniel 3:17 joins an infinitive construct and an imperfect form in the response that God can deliver from the furnace and will deliver from the king's hand; Daniel 3:28 uses the perfect form when the king says that God delivered his servants.

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In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the rescue action is clear, the APB uses “deliver” in Daniel 3:15, Daniel 3:17, and Daniel 3:28. The verse is read as a whole, and its wording in the other supplied verses does not isolate this term's contribution.