Consider helping today!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #1295 - διασώζω
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
διασῴζω,
I preserve through a danger, of persons, Ἀπόλλωνα δ. κατακρύψασα Hdt. 2.156; δ. πόλιν E. Ph. 783; δ. τινὰ ἐκ κινδύνων Isoc. 1.23: — Med., save for oneself, τὰ πλείστου ἄξια X. Cyr. 4.2.28: — Pass., Pl. Ti. 22d; come safe through, τοὺς διασωθέντας Id. R. 540a, cf. 1 Peter 3:20, etc.; διασῴζεσθαι ἐς.. or πρός.. to come safe to a place, Th. 4.113, X. An. 5.4.5, etc.; recover from illness, Id. Mem. 2.10.2.
II of things, preserve, maintain, ἀνδρὶ τἀμὰ δ. λέχη.. E. Hel. 65; keep in memory, X. Mem. 3.5.22; δ. πίστιν τινί Id. HG 7.2.17; δ. τὸν πρῶτον λόγον Pl. R. 395b, cf. Arist. Ph. 189b1; τὰ παλαιά Isoc. 10.63: — Med., preserve for oneself, retain, εὐδαιμονίαν, εὐτυχίαν, Th. 3.39, 5.16; δόξαν Lys. 2.69; τὴν τῶν Μήδων μαλακίαν X. Cyr. 8.8.15.
δια -σώζω ,
[in LXX for H4422, H3467, etc.;]
to bring safely through a danger: Luke 7:3, Acts 27:43; seq. πρός , Acts 23:24. Pass., to come safe through: Acts 28:1; ἐπὶ τ . γῆν , Acts 27:44; ἐκ τ . θαλάσσης , Acts 28:4; δι᾽ ὕδατος , 1 Peter 3:20; of sickness, to recover: Matthew 14:36.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
P Lille I. 17.18 (iii/B.C.) ἀ ]πόστιλον αὐτῶι τινά, ἵνα διασωθῇ ὁ σῖτος ὁ παρ᾽ ὑμᾶς, P Vat A.6 (B.C. 168) (= Witkowski.2, p. 65) κομισάμενος τὴν παρὰ σοῦ ἐπιστολήν, ἐν ἧι διεσάφεις διασεσῶσθαι ἐγ μεγάλων κινδύνων, P Par 29.4 (B.C. 161–0) διασωθεὶς κατὰ τὸ δίκαιον ἐκ τῶν ἔξωθεν τόπων, BGU I. 332.7 (ii/iii A.D.) ἐ ̣χ ̣άρην κομισαμένη γράμματα, ὅτι καλῶς διεσώθητε, ib. 341.13 (ii/A.D.) (as restored in Preisigke p. 40) ὅσοι μὲν τελέω ]ς δ [ι ]α ̣σ ̣ωθησόμενοι πρὸς τοὺς ϊδί [ους κατέφυγον. See also the iv/A.D. Christian letter, P Oxy VI. 939.8 ἡμῖν ἵλεως ἐγένετο [καὶ ταῖς εὐ ]χαῖς ἡμῶν ἐπένευσεν διασώσας ἡμῖν [τὴν ἡμῶν ] κυρίαν, ";He was gracious to us and inclined His ear to our prayers by preserving for us our mistress."; Add from inscrr. Syll 490.15 (iii/B.C.) ἀλλ᾽ ὁμοίως περὶ πάντα [ς τὸ ]ς πολί [τ ]ας [σπουδ ]άζων διέσωισε πολλούς. In connexion with 1 Peter 3:20, where it describes Noah’s being ";safely brought into"; the Ark, it is worth noting that Josephus uses the verb about Noah, in c. Apion. i. 130 περὶ τῆς λάρνακος, ἐν ᾗ Νῶχος. . διεσώθη.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
the Fifth Week after Easter