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The Greek verb diasozo describes bringing someone safely through danger, preserving life, reaching safety, or recovering from sickness. The Gospels use it when people ask Jesus to heal, Acts uses it for protecting Paul during transport and surviving a shipwreck, and First Peter uses it for the eight people preserved through water in Noah's ark.
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The Greek verb diasozo describes bringing someone safely through danger, preserving life, reaching safety, or recovering from sickness. The Gospels use it when people ask Jesus to heal, Acts uses it for protecting Paul during transport and surviving a shipwreck, and First Peter uses it for the eight people preserved through water in Noah's ark.
The BSB source-word alignment has 8 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [and] heal (1), to spare (1), to take [him] safely (1), was brought safely (1), was saved (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 14:36. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (5), 1 Peter (1), Luke (1), Matthew (1).
The Greek verb diasozo describes bringing someone safely through danger, preserving life, reaching safety, or recovering from sickness. The Gospels use it when people ask Jesus to heal, Acts uses it for protecting Paul during transport and surviving a shipwreck, and First Peter uses it for the eight people preserved through water in Noah's ark. The word can describe real rescue without by itself stating every dimension of salvation from sin.
A healing narrative should not become a guarantee that touching an object or expressing sufficient faith will cure every illness. Safe transport under Roman authority does not make custody just in itself, and the shipwreck account highlights practical commands, swimming, debris, and communal survival alongside God's providence. First Peter's flood language belongs to a sustained comparison that proceeds to baptism, conscience, resurrection, and Christ's victory; one lexical form cannot settle every baptismal question.
Responsible teaching identifies the danger, the means of preservation, the agent, and the result. It encourages medical care, protective planning, and thankful testimony while rejecting cure guarantees, ritual mechanisms, and blame toward people whose rescue or recovery is delayed.
Diasozo describes being brought safely through peril and can refer to healing from sickness, protected transport, survival at sea, or preservation through water. Immediate context determines whether the danger is medical, legal, maritime, or typological.
And begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
People beg to touch the fringe of Jesus' cloak, and all who touch it are healed.
When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask Him to come and heal his servant.
The centurion sends Jewish elders to ask Jesus to come and heal his seriously ill servant.
Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.”
The commander orders mounts so Paul can be taken safely to Governor Felix amid a murder plot.
But the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life, thwarted their plan. He commanded those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.
The centurion wants to preserve Paul's life and orders capable swimmers to reach land first.
Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
After everyone survives the shipwreck and reaches shore safely, the travelers learn the island is Malta.
Who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
Peter recalls eight people preserved through water in the ark while God waited patiently in Noah's days.
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Greek word. To bring safely through danger; emphasizes preservation through peril rather than redemption from sin.
To bring safely through danger; emphasizes preservation through peril rather than redemption from sin.
to bring safely through a danger: Luk.7:3, Act.27:43; before πρός, Act.23:24. Pass., to come safe through: Act.28:1; ἐπὶ τ. γῆν, Act.27:44; ἐκ τ. θαλάσσης, Act.28:4; δι᾽ ὕδατος, 1Pe.3:20; of sickness, to recover: Mat.14:36.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
8 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this verb appears across 8 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
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διασώζω is built from these roots:
Affirms complete preservation of life.Acts 27:39-44
Diasozo emphasizes arriving safely through a real threat. In Matthew 14, people are healed in contact with Jesus' cloak because the narrative centers His authority, not a transferable power in fabric. Luke 7 presents a centurion seeking help for a valued servant through local elders. The story commends turning toward Jesus, but it does not endorse slavery or make social influence a condition of healing.
Acts 23 uses the verb within a military escort designed to keep Paul alive after a murder plot. Protective transport is prudent, although custody under empire is not thereby declared just. Acts 27 and 28 show providence working through warnings, a centurion's decision, swimming ability, wreckage, and mutual arrival on shore. Survival is communal, and people with different capacities reach safety by different means.
First Peter recalls Noah's household preserved through water as part of an argument that continues beyond verse 20. Readers must follow Peter's own movement to baptism, a good conscience before God, Jesus Christ's resurrection, and His exaltation rather than making the verb alone prove a ritual mechanism. Faithful application prays for healing, uses medicine and emergency planning, protects threatened people, honors survivors without ranking faith, and speaks honestly when desired rescue has not yet come.
Acts.27.43
Diasozo is a Greek compound of dia and sozo that often highlights preservation through danger or safe arrival. Active forms describe bringing someone through, while passive forms describe being healed, preserved, or brought safely; the object and setting establish the kind of rescue.
Old Testament writers use several Hebrew verbs for rescue, escape, strengthening, and preservation, including the varied chalats senses in H2502. Canonical connections can illuminate God's saving care, but diasozo alone does not merge physical healing, maritime survival, covenant deliverance, baptism, and salvation from sin.