Hebrew · H3467

יָשַׁע

Properly, to be open , wide or free , i.e. (by implication) to be safe ; causatively, to free or succor

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יָשַׁע H3467
Pronunciation môšîaʿ

What does יָשַׁע (môšîaʿ) mean in the Bible?

יָשַׁע (yasha) is a Hebrew verb for saving, delivering, helping, or giving victory. The local Hebrew artifact currently indexes about 206 H3467 occurrences.

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What does יָשַׁע (môšîaʿ) mean in the Bible?

יָשַׁע (yasha) is a Hebrew verb for saving, delivering, helping, or giving victory. The local Hebrew artifact currently indexes about 206 H3467 occurrences.

How does the BSB render H3467?

The BSB source-word alignment has 205 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include save me (13), save (12), to save (10), I will save (8), save us (8).

Where does יָשַׁע (môšîaʿ) appear in Scripture?

The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 2:17. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (57), Isaiah (29), Judges (21), Jeremiah (19).

What This Word Actually Means

יָשַׁע (yasha) is a Hebrew verb for saving, delivering, helping, or giving victory. The local Hebrew artifact currently indexes about 206 H3467 occurrences. It is used with God and with human deliverers, across military danger, personal distress, national rescue, royal hope, and theological proclamation. No single English gloss or doctrinal scope governs every occurrence.

Exodus 14:30 says that the Lord saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians at the sea. In that scene Israel's rescue depends on God's action, and the event becomes a major canonical pattern of deliverance. The passage should not be made the lexical definition of every later H3467 use or used to deny the responsive acts that follow divine rescue.

The Psalms use the verb in petitions and testimonies such as 'save me for the sake of your steadfast love' (Ps 6:4) and 'I am saved from my enemies' (Ps 18:3). These prayers join present need to confidence in God's character without promising that every rescue will arrive in the same temporal form.

Isaiah 43:3 names the Lord as Israel's Savior, and Isaiah 45:22 calls the ends of the earth to turn to God and be saved because there is no other God. The latter widens the audience while remaining grounded in Isaiah's proclamation of Israel's God rather than an Israel-independent religious principle.

Zechariah 9:9 describes Zion's coming king with a Niphal participle that can be rendered saved, victorious, or having salvation. The grammatical and translation question should remain visible; the verse must not be made to say more than its form and royal context support.

The H3467 root family is related to salvation nouns and to the Hebrew names Yeshua and Yehoshua. Matthew 1:21 connects Jesus' name with his mission to save his people from their sins. This supplies a strong canonical name-and-mission link without making every H3467 occurrence a prediction of Jesus or deriving a complete doctrine of salvation from the root alone.

For the preacher, יָשַׁע invites confidence in the God who saves and honest prayer from situations of danger or helplessness. Application should preserve divine agency, genuine human response, and each passage's particular kind of deliverance.

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