ῥύομαι rhuomai

Greek word for “to rescue” · Strong’s G4506 · used 17 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

ῥύομαι; to draw to oneself, hence, to rescue, deliver: with accusative of person(s);

How it is translated

Glosses given for rhuomai in context, with how often each is used:

• will deliver 4
• delivering 2
• may be delivered 2
• has delivered 2
• delivered 2
• do deliver 1
• should deliver 1
• having been saved 1
• rescued 1
• deliver 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Timothy 4 (2), 2 Peter 2 (2), Matthew 6 (1), Matthew 27 (1), Luke 1 (1), Romans 7 (1), Romans 11 (1), Romans 15 (1), 2 Corinthians 1 (1), Colossians 1 (1)

Forms

• ἐρρύσατο 4
• ῥύσεται 3
• ῥῦσαι 1
• ῥυσάσθω 1
• ῥυσθέντας 1
• ῥυόμενος 1
• ῥυσθῶ 1
• ῥυόμενον 1
• ῥυσθῶμεν 1
• ἐρρύσθην 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with rhuomai more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πονηρός ponēros “evil/bad” 3
• πειρασμός peirasmos “temptation/testing” 2
• υἱός uhios “son” 3
• σῴζω sōzō “to save” 2
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 2
• βασιλεία basileia “kingdom” 2

Key verses

The verses using rhuomai that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 6:13 — And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
• Matthew 27:43 — He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
• Luke 1:74 — That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
• Romans 7:24 — O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
• Romans 11:26 — And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
• 2 Corinthians 1:10 — Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
• Colossians 1:13 — Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
• 1 Thessalonians 1:10 — And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
• 2 Timothy 3:11 — Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
• 2 Timothy 4:17 — Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was…
• 2 Timothy 4:18 — And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• 2 Peter 2:9 — The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.