Definition

rescue or safety (physically or morally)

Etymology

feminine of a derivative of G4990 (σωτήρ) as (properly, abstract) noun;

Word family

• σωτήρ sōtḗr

How the KJV renders it

• deliver
• health
• salvation
• save
• saving

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.