σωτηρία
sōtēria
Modern Summary of Abbott-Smith’s Lexicon (1922)
The word *sōtēria* primarily means deliverance, preservation, safety, or salvation. In the New Testament, it often refers to spiritual or Messianic salvation, contrasting with destruction or loss. It can describe salvation as a present experience, a future hope, or a process to be worked out or inherited.
salvation; deliverance, rescue from danger or destruction
Etymologically, sōtēria traces to feminine of a derivative of (σωτήρ) as (properly, abstract) noun. In the King James Version, this word is translated as deliver, health, salvation, save, and saving.
Its Hebrew parallels include יֶשַׁע (yesha), יְשׁוּעָה (yᵉshûwâh), revealing shared conceptual ground across the biblical languages.
The semantic range of sōtēria — spanning meanings like deliver, health, salvation — suggests a word whose full significance cannot be captured by a single English term.
Lexical data derived from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. See full disclaimer
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