Word study
Deliver
10 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: deliver, delivered, delivers, delivering. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “deliver” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 149 times of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb · Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135Full study and all 1,785 verses →
Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
Exodus 5:18 Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
- נָצַל nâtsalstrip, plundertranslated this way 118 times of its 205 uses · Strong’s H5337Verb · Translated: deliver 75, delivered 34, rescue 30, rescued 9Full study and all 191 verses →
Genesis 32:11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
Exodus 5:23 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”
- סָגַר sâgarshut, closetranslated this way 14 times of its 90 uses · Strong’s H5462Verb · Translated: shut 23, closed 9, isolate 8, delivered 8Full study and all 87 verses →
1 Samuel 17:46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
2 Samuel 18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
- פָּלַט pâlaṭescapetranslated this way 12 times of its 26 uses · Strong’s H6403Verb · Translated: deliverer 5, deliver 5, delivered 4, delivers 2Full study and all 24 verses →
2 Samuel 22:44 You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
Job 23:7 Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
- מָלַט mâlaṭslip awaytranslated this way 11 times of its 93 uses · Strong’s H4422Verb · Translated: escaped 22, escape 20, deliver 6, delivered 5Full study and all 85 verses →
2 Samuel 19:9 And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
Job 6:23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
- חָלַץ châlatsdraw off or out, withdrawtranslated this way 8 times of its 42 uses · Strong’s H2502Verb · Translated: armed 5, rescued 4, delivered 4, arm 4Full study and all 42 verses →
Psalm 6:4 Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
Proverbs 11:8 The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
- שְׁזַב shezabdelivertranslated this way 7 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H7804Verb · Translated: deliver 4, delivered 1, delivering 1, delivers 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Daniel 3:15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I have made, very good. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
Daniel 3:17 If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.
- יָלַד yâladbear, bring forth, begettranslated this way 5 times of its 484 uses · Strong’s H3205Verb · Translated: father 111, born 57, bore 52, gave birth 44Full study and all 395 verses →
2 Kings 19:3 to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
Isaiah 37:3 to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
- בּוֹא bôcome in, come, go in, gotranslated this way 3 times of its 2,442 uses · Strong’s H935Verb · Translated: come 358, came 298, bring 209, brought 201Full study and all 2,217 verses →
- שָׁלַח shâlachsendtranslated this way 2 times of its 829 uses · Strong’s H7971Verb · Translated: sent 334, send 126, go 43, sending 19Full study and all 783 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- παραδίδωμι paradídōmiI hand over, deliver, betraytranslated this way 15 times of its 119 uses · Strong’s G3860Verb · Translated: betray 19, handed 19, delivered 10, hand 9Full study and all 117 verses →
Matthew 17:22 When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.
Mark 9:31 because He was teaching His disciples. He told them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days He will rise.”
- ῥύομαι rhýomaiI rescuetranslated this way 7 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s G4506Verb · Translated: delivered 4, deliver 3, rescue 3, rescued 3Full study and all 15 verses →
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
Romans 15:31 Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.