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Greek verb · G4506

ῥύομαι

rhyomairhoo'-om-ahee

to rescue

17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: rhýomai

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4506is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4506

compare ); to rush or draw (for oneself), i.e. rescue

The King James renders it: deliver(-er).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

rhyomai is rendered "to rescue". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across nine books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

Matthew 6:13ῥῦσαι

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in nine of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 18 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • will deliver3
  • has delivered2
  • delivered1
  • Delivering1
  • do deliver1
  • having been saved1
  • He rescued1
  • he should deliver1
  • He will deliver1
  • I may be delivered1
  • I was delivered1
  • is delivering1

and 2 more, 17 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐρρύσατο4
  • ῥύσεται3
  • ἐρρύσθην1
  • ῥύεσθαι1
  • ῥυόμενον1
  • ῥυόμενος1
  • ῥῦσαι1
  • ῥυσάσθω1
  • ῥύσεταί1
  • ῥυσθέντας1
  • ῥυσθῶ1
  • ῥυσθῶμεν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-ANI-3S
  • verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-FDI-3S
  • verb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person singular1V-ADM-2S
  • verb · aorist middle form, command · 3rd person singular1V-ADM-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singular1V-API-1S
  • verb · aorist passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-APP-APM
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-APS-1P
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person singular1V-APS-1S
  • verb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PNN
  • verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PNP-ASM
  • verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PNP-NSM

Matthew

two uses
  • And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

    Matthew 6:13

    • ῥῦσαιrhusaiverb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do deliver
  • He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

    Matthew 27:43

    • ῥυσάσθωrhusasthoverb · aorist middle form, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should deliver

Luke

one use
  • deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

    Luke 1:74

    • ῥυσθένταςrhusthentasverb · aorist passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: having been saved

Romans

three uses
  • What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

    Romans 7:24

    • ῥύσεταιrhusetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will deliver
  • And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.

    Romans 11:26

    • ῥυόμενοςrhuomenosverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Delivering
  • Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,

    Romans 15:31

    • ῥυσθῶrhusthoverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may be delivered

2 Corinthians

three uses
  • He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

    2 Corinthians 1:10

    • ἐρρύσατοerrusatoverb · aorist middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has delivered
    • ῥύσεταιrhusetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will deliver
    • ῥύσεταιrhusetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He will deliver

Colossians

one use
  • He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

    Colossians 1:13

    • ἐρρύσατοerrusatoverb · aorist middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has delivered

1 Thessalonians

one use
  • and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

    1 Thessalonians 1:10

    • ῥυόμενονrhuomenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: is delivering

2 Thessalonians

one use
  • And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.

    2 Thessalonians 3:2

    • ῥυσθῶμενrhusthomenverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may be delivered

2 Timothy

three uses
  • my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

    2 Timothy 3:11

    • ἐρρύσατοerrusatoverb · aorist middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: delivered
  • But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

    2 Timothy 4:17

    • ἐρρύσθηνerrusthenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was delivered
  • And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

    2 Timothy 4:18

    • ῥύσεταίrhusetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Will deliver

2 Peter

two uses
  • and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

    2 Peter 2:7

    • ἐρρύσατοerrusatoverb · aorist middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rescued
  • if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

    2 Peter 2:9

    • ῥύεσθαιrhuesthaiverb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to deliver

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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