2001 Translation

SŌTĒRIA, sōtēria

Sounds Like: soh-tee-REE-ah

Translations: salvation, a salvation, deliverance, preservation, safety

From the root: ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the act of saving or being saved from danger, destruction, or sin. In a theological context, it often refers to spiritual deliverance from sin and its consequences, leading to eternal life. It can also refer to physical rescue or preservation from harm.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4991 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 5:6, 99:1

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:20, 10:45, 10:59, 11:5, 11:21

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 4:11, 8:12u
• Tobit — 6:18, 8:5, 14:4
• 1 Maccabees — 3:6, 4:25, 5:62
• 4 Maccabees — 9:4
• Psalms — 3:3, 3:9, 19:7, 34:3, 36:39, 59:13, 68:30, 107:13, 118:155, 145:3, 149:4
• Proverbs — 11:14
• Job — 11:20, 13:16, 20:20, 30:15
• Wisdom — 6:24, 18:7
• Sirach — 46:1
• Isaiah — 33:2, 33:6, 47:15, 59:11
• Jeremiah — 3:23, 32:35
• Obadiah — 1:17
• Habakkuk — 3:8
• Luke — 19:9
• John — 4:22
• Acts of the Apostles — 4:12
• Romans — 10:10, 11:11, 13:11
• Revelation — 7:10, 12:10, 19:1

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 18:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 1:27, 3:65
• Book 6 — 7:142, 11:212
• Book 14 — 15:402
• Book 17 — 6:152
• Book 18 — 9:358
• Book 19 — 1:22, 1:42, 4:242

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 16:10, 26:7
• Book Two — 18:6
• Book Three — 8:41, 8:42, 9:16
• Book Five — 6:15
• Book Six — 5:40
• Book Seven — 8:132

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 8:3, 91:4

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 22:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 20:24
• Numbers — 29:39
• 1 Samuel — 2:1, 11:9
• 2 Samuel — 15:14, 19:2, 23:5
• Esther — 4:11, 8:12
• Tobit — 6:18, 8:5, 14:4
• 1 Maccabees — 3:6, 4:25, 5:62
• 2 Maccabees — 7:25, 14:3
• 3 Maccabees — 6:30, 6:33, 7:22
• 4 Maccabees — 9:4
• Psalms — 3:3, 3:9, 11:6, 19:7, 34:3, 36:39, 41:12, 59:13, 68:30, 107:13, 118:155, 145:3, 149:4
• Psalms of Solomon — 3:6, 10:9, 12:7
• Odes — 3:1, 6:8
• Proverbs — 11:14
• Job — 11:20, 20:20, 30:15
• Wisdom — 6:24, 18:7
• Sirach — 46:1
• Isaiah — 25:9, 33:2, 33:6, 47:15, 59:11
• Jeremiah — 3:23, 32:21, 38:22
• Obadiah — 1:17
• Habakkuk — 3:8
• Enoch — 5:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 19:9
• John — 4:22
• Acts — 4:12
• Romans — 11:11, 13:11
• Revelation — 7:10, 12:10, 19:1

From the same root

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

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.

• ΕἸΣΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΝ — for salvation, into salvation, to salvation, for deliverance, into deliverance, to deliverance
• ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΝ — salvation, deliverance, preservation, safety, a salvation
• ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΣ — of salvation, of deliverance, of preservation, of safety
• ΣΩΤΗΡΙΟΥ — (of) salvation, (of) deliverance, (of) preservation, (of) safety, a salvation
• ΤΗΝΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΝ — salvation, deliverance, preservation, safety, a salvation
• ΤΗΡΙΑ — salvation, deliverance, preservation, safety, a salvation, a deliverance

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