2001 Translation

SŌTĒRION, sōtērion

Sounds Like: so-TEE-ree-on

Translations: salvation, deliverance, saving health, a salvation, a deliverance, a saving health

From the root: ΣΩΤΗΡ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word refers to that which brings salvation or deliverance. It is often used to describe God's act of saving or the state of being saved. It can also refer to the means or instrument of salvation. In the New Testament, it frequently denotes the spiritual salvation offered through Christ.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G4992 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:20, 8:2, 8:19, 10:80

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 35:12, 36:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Chronicles — 16:23
• 4 Maccabees — 12:6, 15:26
• Psalms — 13:7, 39:11, 39:17, 41:6, 42:5, 49:23, 52:7, 61:2, 61:8, 66:3, 69:5, 77:22, 84:8, 84:10, 90:16, 95:2, 97:2, 97:3, 118:41, 118:81, 118:123, 118:166, 118:174
• Sirach — 39:18
• Isaiah — 26:1, 33:20, 38:11, 40:5, 51:5, 51:6, 51:8, 56:1, 60:6, 60:18, 62:1
• Jonah — 2:10
• Luke — 2:30, 3:6
• Acts of the Apostles — 28:28

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 16:335
• Book 8 — 10:256
• Book 9 — 14:289
• Book 11 — 6:282, 6:285
• Book 13 — 16:413

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 7:40
• Book Five — 9:25

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 41:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 11:3, 13:1, 22:10, 50:3, 72:4, 73:3, 74:2, 74:3

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 12:9

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 41:16
• Leviticus — 17:4
• Numbers — 6:14, 15:8
• 3 Maccabees — 6:31
• 4 Maccabees — 15:26
• Psalms — 13:7, 39:11, 39:17, 41:6, 42:5, 49:23, 52:7, 61:2, 61:8, 66:3, 69:5, 77:22, 84:8, 84:10, 90:16, 95:2, 97:2, 97:3, 118:41, 118:81, 118:123, 118:166, 118:174
• Odes — 7:11, 12:30
• Sirach — 39:18
• Isaiah — 26:1, 33:20, 38:11, 40:5, 51:5, 51:6, 51:8, 56:1, 60:6, 60:18, 62:1
• Lamentations — 3:26

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 2:30, 3:6
• Acts — 28:28

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΩΤΗΡ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΣΩΤΗΡ — Savior, Deliverer, Preserver, a Savior
• ΣΩΤΗΡʼ — Savior, Deliverer, Preserver
• ΣΩΤΗΡΑ — Savior, a Savior, Deliverer, Preserver
• ΣΩΤΗΡΑΝ — savior, a savior, deliverer, a deliverer, preserver, a preserver
• ΣΩΤΗΡΑΣ — savior, deliverer, preserver, a savior
• ΣΩΤΗΡΕΣ — saviors, deliverers, preservers
• ΣΩΤΗΡΙ — to a savior, for a savior, to a deliverer, for a deliverer, to a preserver, for a preserver
• ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ — of a savior, of the Savior, of a deliverer, of the Deliverer, of a preserver, of the Preserver
• Σ‾Η‾Ρ — Savior, a Savior, Deliverer, a Deliverer, Preserver, a Preserver
• ΤΗΡΟΣ — Savior, Deliverer, Preserver, a Savior, a Deliverer
• ΤΩΣΩΤΗΡΙ — to the savior, for the savior, to a savior, for a savior, to the deliverer, for the deliverer, to a deliverer, for a deliverer
• ‾ΣΡΙ‾ — Savior, a Savior, (to) Savior, (to) a Savior
• ‾ΣΩΡ‾ — Savior, a Savior, Deliverer, a Deliverer, Preserver, a Preserver

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