Strong G4982σῴζω
to save
- Transliteration
- sōzō
- Pronunciation
- sode'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From a primary word σῶς sōs̄ (contraction for the obsolete σάος saos safe); to save that is deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal preserve save (self) do well be (make) whole.
Detailed definition
σώζω (on the more accurate σῴζω, see WH, Intr., §410; Bl., §3, 1-3),
[in LXX chiefly for ישׁע hi., also for מלט ni., נצל ni., etc.;]
to save from peril, injury or suffering: Mat.8:25, Mrk.13:20, Luk.23:35, al.; τ. ψυχήν, Mat.16:25, al.; before ἐκ, Jhn.12:27, Heb.5:7, Ju 5; of healing, restoring to health: Mat.9:22, Mrk.5:34, al. In NT, esp. of salvation from spiritual disease and death, in which sense it is "spoken of in Scripture as either (1) past, (2) present, or (3) future, according as redemption, grace, or glory is the point in view. Thus (1) Rom.8:24, Eph.2:5, 8 2Ti.1:9, Tit.3:5; (2) Act.2:47, 1Co.1:18, 15:2, 2Co.2:15; (3) Mat.10:22, Rom.13:11, Php.2:12, Heb.9:28" (Vau. on Rom.5:9). Seq. ἀπό, Mat.1:21, Act.2:40, Rom.5:9; ἐκ, Jas.5:20, Ju 23 (cf. Cremer, 532ff.).
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for ישׁע hi., also for מלט ni., נצל ni., etc.;]
to save from peril, injury or suffering: Mat.8:25, Mrk.13:20, Luk.23:35, al.; τ. ψυχήν, Mat.16:25, al.; before ἐκ, Jhn.12:27, Heb.5:7, Ju 5; of healing, restoring to health: Mat.9:22, Mrk.5:34, al. In NT, esp. of salvation from spiritual disease and death, in which sense it is "spoken of in Scripture as either (1) past, (2) present, or (3) future, according as redemption, grace, or glory is the point in view. Thus (1) Rom.8:24, Eph.2:5, 8 2Ti.1:9, Tit.3:5; (2) Act.2:47, 1Co.1:18, 15:2, 2Co.2:15; (3) Mat.10:22, Rom.13:11, Php.2:12, Heb.9:28" (Vau. on Rom.5:9). Seq. ἀπό, Mat.1:21, Act.2:40, Rom.5:9; ἐκ, Jas.5:20, Ju 23 (cf. Cremer, 532ff.).
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4982 appears in 103 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- save86
- make8
- whole5
- heal3
- be2
- saved2
- do1
- doth1
- may1
- preserve1
- should1
- thou1
First verses
- Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
- Matthew 8:25And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
- Matthew 9:21For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
- Matthew 9:22But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
- Matthew 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
- Matthew 14:30But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
- Matthew 16:25For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
- Matthew 18:11For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
- Matthew 19:25When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
- Matthew 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
- Matthew 24:22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
- Matthew 27:40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
- Matthew 27:42He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
- Matthew 27:49The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
- Mark 3:4And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
- Mark 5:23And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
- Mark 5:28For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
- Mark 5:34And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
- Mark 6:56And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
- Mark 8:35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σῴζω,
with ι wherever ζ follows ω, as σῴζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Etymologicum Magnum” 741.27, and so (written σωιζ-) in Inscrr. and Papyri down to 3rd c.BC, e.g. “IG” 12.625.4, 22.687.35, 1611.378, 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 75 (lapis), “PCair.Zen.” 482.17, 532.23 (3rd c.BC), “Test.Epict.” 1.6 (3rd-2nd c.BC), (ἀνα-) “IG” 22.492.13, also in codex Laur. of 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 993, +others)], but otherwise without it, e.g. ἔσωσε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 9(2).257.11 (Thess., 5th c.BC))]; but Didym. (and many Hellenistic and later Inscrr. and Papyri) rejected the ι everywhere, see [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Etymologicum Magnum” [same place], and on the other hand Inscrr. show σῳσ- (always written σωισ-) from 5th c.BC, ἔσῳσεν “IG” 12.1085.5, 22.1236.6, συνδιασῴσαντες “GDI” 1612.9 (Dyme, 3rd c.BC), σῴσαι (_3rd.pers._ _sing._ _optative_) “IG” 5(2).357.152 (Stymphalus, 3rd c.BC), διέσῳσαν “OGI” 56.18 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC),compare “PPetr.” 3p.72 (3rd c.BC))]; σοζ[, i.e. σωζ[, occurs in [Refs (“IG” 12.590)]: future σώσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1391, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137, etc.)]; early Attic dialect σωῶ [Refs (“IG” 12.188.30:)]perfect σέσωκα, also σέσῳκα, see. {ἀνασῴζω}:— middle, future σώσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 793, (ἐκ-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 360, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.28)]: aorist ἐσωσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 402)]:—passive, future σωθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 77, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 1, etc.)]: aorist ἐσώθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.110, +others, “SIG” 167.37 (Mylasa, 4th c.BC) (ἐσώσθην only in 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus))]: perfect σέσωσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Th.” [821 (820)], σέσωσται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 607, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.33, σεσώσμεθα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 83, etc.; but σέσωται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109d, compare 110a, σεσωμένος “PCair.Zen.” 331.8 (3rd c.BC))]; said to be Attic dialect by [Refs 9th c.AD+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)]; διασεσῳμένους is found in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 22.435.11 (after 4th c.BC) and διασεσῳμένοι in “PCair.Zen.” 240.11 (3rd c.BC))]; later σέσῳσται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 12(7).386.25 (Amorgos, 3rd c.BC))].--The foll. forms are found in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and dialects,)]
1 present participle σώζων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.490)]; 3rd.pers. singular indicative or optative σώζει (-οι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 376 (variant for{εἴη}):)]present participle passive σωζόμενοι (-ομένοισι) [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 68, 235 (assuming variant).)]
2 from σᾰόω, 3rd.pers. singular σαοῖ [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 868, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 22, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. plural σαοῦσι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.13)]; 2nd pers. singular imperative σάου [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Hymni Homerici” 13.3, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 35 (as variant))], etc.: future σαώσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.44)]: aorist ἐσάωσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (21.611, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 231)]: aorist infinitive passive σαωθῆναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.473; _imperative_ σαωθήτω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.228)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐσάωθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.185)]: future middle σαώσομαι [Refs (21.309.)]
3 from σάωμι, Aeolic dialect 2nd pers. singular σάως [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 73 (perhaps σάῳς))]; 2nd pers. singular imperative σάω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.230, 17.595, Callias Epigrammaticus [same place], etc.: σάω)] as 3rd.pers. singular imperfect, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.363, 21.238.)]
4 from σώω, participle σώοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.430)]; Ionic dialect imperfect σώεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.363)]; σώετε, σώεσθαι, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.197, 2.610.)]
5 from σόω, subjunctive σόῃς, -ῃ, -ωσι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.681, 424, 393 vulgar form, where Tyrannio cited in Hdn.Gr. 2.66 reads σοῷς, σοῷ, σοῶσ; in 9.681 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus read both σαῷς and σοῷς)]; the forms σοῷς, σοῷ perhaps arise from σαόω, by contraction and 'distraction': but σόωσι from σώωσι accusative to Hdn.Gr.[same place]; [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus cites also σόεις, σοῦται as ={σώζεις, σώζεται}.)]
6 Laconian dialect σωάδδει· παρατηρεῖ, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]: but also σχολι-σοΐδδω, aorist ἀπέσοιξεν· ἀπέσωσεν, Λάκωνες, [Refs ([prev. author])]
7 σωννύω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Dinolochus Comicus 5)]:—save, keep,
1 of persons, save from death, keep alive, σώοντες ἑταίρους [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.430; ζωοὺς σάω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.238; ὄτ᾽ ἄσφ᾽ ἀπολλυμένοις σάως 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 73, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.38; πόδες καὶ γοῦνα σ. τινά 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.611; νὺξ στρατὸν σ. 9.78)]; spare, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.357)]:—passive, to be saved, kept alive, preserved, opposed to ἀπολέσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.185, etc.; ἀγαπητῶς σεσωσμένους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.16)]; keep a whole skin, escape destruction, οἱ σωθησόμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 176d)]; so in present σωζόμενος, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 68, 235 (assuming variant))]; to be healed, recover from sickness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 136, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.10 (uncertain reading); ὑγιαίνοντες καὶ σωζόμενοι “IG” 22.1028.89 (1st c.BC))]; σώζεο, as a wish, God bless you, farewell, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 150, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.240 (Paul. Sil.), 9.372)]; σώζοισθε [Refs 6th c.AD+ ([prev. work]171 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus))]; also, save oneself, escape, σώθητι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 44b)]; μόγις or μόλις σῴζεσθαι escape with difficulty, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ep.” 332c, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.48, etc.)]; χαλεπῶς σ. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 675.)]
1.b especially in [NT (“NT”, of God or Christ, NT.1Cor.1.21, etc.; σ. τὸ ἀπολωλός NT.Luke.19.10; σ. τὸν κόσμον NT.John.12.47)]:—frequently in passive, to be saved or in a state of salvation, [NT (NT.Matt.19.25, etc.; οἱ σῳζόμενοι NT.Luke.13.23, NT.Act.2.47.)]
2 of things, keep safe, preserve, rare in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, σάω μὲν ταῦτα, σάω δ᾽ ἐμέ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.230; σπέρμα πυρὸς σώζων 5.490)]; πόλιν καὶ ἄστυ σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.144; σαώσει Ἀργείους καὶ νῆας 10.44, compare 9.230)]: frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect, σ. φάρμακον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 686; τὰ τόξα [prev. author] “Ph.” 766)]; τὰ σκεύη, παῖδας οἶκον χρήματα, καρπούς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 730 (_anapaest meter_), “Av.” 380 (troch.), 1062 (Lyric poetry))]; τὰ πατρῷα, τὰ ὑπάρχοντα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 820 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70)]; σ. πόλιν preserve the city or the state, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.34, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 749 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1058, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 417a, compare “Grg.” 512b, etc.; τὰ πράγματα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.74; τὴν Ἑλλάδα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 525 (Lyric poetry))]; τὰς πολιτείας, τὴν δημοκρατίαν, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b15, 36)]; τόνδε γὰρ [λόγον] σῴζων keeping it secret, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 524, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1530)]; σ. καιρόν save or recover an opportunity, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.6, compare 23.4)]:—middle, keep or preserve for oneself, τὴν εὐλάβειαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 993, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 146, etc.; αὐτὸς αὑτῷ σ. τι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 402, compare “Eq.” 1017 (hexameters):)] —passive, τὸ ἄπραγμον οὐ σῴζεται is not secure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.63)]; ἡ.. πόλις οὐκ ἂν ἐσῴζετ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 219)]; to be preserved or extant, of books, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor cited in 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 20, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.705, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 70.2.)]
3 keep, observe, maintain laws, etc., σ. ἐφετμάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 241; τὸν παρόντα νοῦν [prev. author] “Pr.” 394; τοὺς καθεστῶτας νόμους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Virtutibus et Vitiis” 1250b17; τοὺς σοὺς λόγους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1552)]; τὸ μόρσιμον[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 613; τὰ πρὸς τοὺς κατοίκους δίκαια “BGU” 562.19 (2nd c.AD))]; confirm, τὸ τοῦ ποιήσαντος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 400b24, compare 3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 45 (_passive_))]; πρὸς τὸ τὰ φαινόμενα σῴζειν to retain the observed facts, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 5.10)]; κατὰ ποσὸν σῴζει τὴν πρὸς τὸ μῶλυ ἐμφέρειαν retains, i.e. does not lack, a certain resemblance to.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.46, compare 98, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 8)]:—passive, to be maintained, τοῦ μήκους σῳζομένου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 386a2; ἐφ᾽ ᾧ τοῖς θεοῖς τὰ ἱερὰ σωθήσεσθαι “PHib.” 1.77.7 (3rd c.BC).)]
4 keep in mind, remember, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 266, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486c)]: more frequently in middle, παρῆκα θεσμῶν οὐδέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐσῳζόμην.. ὅπως δύσνιπτον ἐκ δέλτου γραφήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 682, compare “El.” 1257; μηδ᾽ ἂ ἔμαθε σῴζοιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 455b; in full, μνήμην σῴζομαι στρατεύματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 302 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 501a, “Tht.” 163d.)]
II Constr.:
II.1 simply with accusative, see above
II.2 with a sense of motion to a place, bring one safe to, τὸν δ᾽ ἐσάωσεν ἐς ποταμοῦ προχοάς [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.452; ἐς ὅμιλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.401; πόλινδε 5.224, etc.; ἐς οἴκους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 311; εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τὴν ἐπουράνιον NT.2Tim.4.18)]:—passive, come safe to a place, σωθέντος ἐμεῦ ὀπίσω ἐς οἶκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, compare 9.104; πρὸς ἤπειρον σεσῶσθαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 737; δεῦρο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 725; οἴκαδε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.7)]; σῴζεσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν ὑμετέρην [χώρην] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98; ἐς δόμους σωθέντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 611; σωθῶμεν ἐπὶ θάλατταν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.20: with _dative_ _person_, μόλις ὔμμιν ἐσώθην 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.4.)]
II.3 σ. τινὰ ἐκ φλοίσβοιο, ἐκ πολέμου, carry off safe, rescue from.. , [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.469, 11.752; ἐκ ποταμοῖο 21.274; ἐκ θανάτοιο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.753; ἐκ πολλῶν πόνων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1356; ἀπὸ στρατείας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 603; διὰ δεινῶν πραγμάτων σεσωσμένοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.8: with _genitive_, σώσας ἐχθρῶν χθόνα)] having rescued it from them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1162; σῶσαί τινα κακοῦ [prev. author] “Ph.” 919; σεαυτὸν νούσου “Ath.Mitt.” 56.124 (from Smyrna))]; σωθῆναι κακῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 779)].--Both constructions may be combined, σ. τινὰ ἐκ πολέμοιο νῆας ἔπι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.452; ἐκ π. μετὰ νῆας 12.123; ἐξ Αἰγίνης δεῦρο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 511d.)]
II.4 with accusative et dative person, save for another, υἷά τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.765; ἡμῖν τὸν βίον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356e, etc.)]:— passive, σῴζεταί τί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1022, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.56.)]
II.5 with infinitive, [σπονδαὶ] αἵ σε σῴζουσιν θανεῖν which save thee from dying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 600 (troch.).)]
II.6 with participle, σῴζεσθαι φεύγοντες by flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.51.)]
II.7 absolutely, τὰ σώσοντα what is likely to save, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.5)]; ἡ σῴζουσα [ψῆφος] [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Harm.” 3.)]
II.7.b σώζων, ὁ, [Refs (“Saviour”, of a god, “JRS” 14.28 (from Iconium))]; epithet of Apollo, [Refs (“CR” 19.368 (from Sizma).)]
II.7.c σῴζουσα, ἡ, ={ἀρτεμισία}, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.113.)]
with ι wherever ζ follows ω, as σῴζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Etymologicum Magnum” 741.27, and so (written σωιζ-) in Inscrr. and Papyri down to 3rd c.BC, e.g. “IG” 12.625.4, 22.687.35, 1611.378, 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 75 (lapis), “PCair.Zen.” 482.17, 532.23 (3rd c.BC), “Test.Epict.” 1.6 (3rd-2nd c.BC), (ἀνα-) “IG” 22.492.13, also in codex Laur. of 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 993, +others)], but otherwise without it, e.g. ἔσωσε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 9(2).257.11 (Thess., 5th c.BC))]; but Didym. (and many Hellenistic and later Inscrr. and Papyri) rejected the ι everywhere, see [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Etymologicum Magnum” [same place], and on the other hand Inscrr. show σῳσ- (always written σωισ-) from 5th c.BC, ἔσῳσεν “IG” 12.1085.5, 22.1236.6, συνδιασῴσαντες “GDI” 1612.9 (Dyme, 3rd c.BC), σῴσαι (_3rd.pers._ _sing._ _optative_) “IG” 5(2).357.152 (Stymphalus, 3rd c.BC), διέσῳσαν “OGI” 56.18 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC),compare “PPetr.” 3p.72 (3rd c.BC))]; σοζ[, i.e. σωζ[, occurs in [Refs (“IG” 12.590)]: future σώσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1391, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137, etc.)]; early Attic dialect σωῶ [Refs (“IG” 12.188.30:)]perfect σέσωκα, also σέσῳκα, see. {ἀνασῴζω}:— middle, future σώσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 793, (ἐκ-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 360, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.28)]: aorist ἐσωσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 402)]:—passive, future σωθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 77, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 1, etc.)]: aorist ἐσώθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.110, +others, “SIG” 167.37 (Mylasa, 4th c.BC) (ἐσώσθην only in 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus))]: perfect σέσωσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Th.” [821 (820)], σέσωσται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 607, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.33, σεσώσμεθα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 83, etc.; but σέσωται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109d, compare 110a, σεσωμένος “PCair.Zen.” 331.8 (3rd c.BC))]; said to be Attic dialect by [Refs 9th c.AD+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)]; διασεσῳμένους is found in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 22.435.11 (after 4th c.BC) and διασεσῳμένοι in “PCair.Zen.” 240.11 (3rd c.BC))]; later σέσῳσται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 12(7).386.25 (Amorgos, 3rd c.BC))].--The foll. forms are found in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and dialects,)]
1 present participle σώζων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.490)]; 3rd.pers. singular indicative or optative σώζει (-οι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 376 (variant for{εἴη}):)]present participle passive σωζόμενοι (-ομένοισι) [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 68, 235 (assuming variant).)]
2 from σᾰόω, 3rd.pers. singular σαοῖ [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 868, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 22, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. plural σαοῦσι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.13)]; 2nd pers. singular imperative σάου [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Hymni Homerici” 13.3, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 35 (as variant))], etc.: future σαώσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.44)]: aorist ἐσάωσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (21.611, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 231)]: aorist infinitive passive σαωθῆναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.473; _imperative_ σαωθήτω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.228)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐσάωθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.185)]: future middle σαώσομαι [Refs (21.309.)]
3 from σάωμι, Aeolic dialect 2nd pers. singular σάως [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 73 (perhaps σάῳς))]; 2nd pers. singular imperative σάω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.230, 17.595, Callias Epigrammaticus [same place], etc.: σάω)] as 3rd.pers. singular imperfect, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.363, 21.238.)]
4 from σώω, participle σώοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.430)]; Ionic dialect imperfect σώεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.363)]; σώετε, σώεσθαι, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.197, 2.610.)]
5 from σόω, subjunctive σόῃς, -ῃ, -ωσι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.681, 424, 393 vulgar form, where Tyrannio cited in Hdn.Gr. 2.66 reads σοῷς, σοῷ, σοῶσ; in 9.681 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus read both σαῷς and σοῷς)]; the forms σοῷς, σοῷ perhaps arise from σαόω, by contraction and 'distraction': but σόωσι from σώωσι accusative to Hdn.Gr.[same place]; [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus cites also σόεις, σοῦται as ={σώζεις, σώζεται}.)]
6 Laconian dialect σωάδδει· παρατηρεῖ, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]: but also σχολι-σοΐδδω, aorist ἀπέσοιξεν· ἀπέσωσεν, Λάκωνες, [Refs ([prev. author])]
7 σωννύω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Dinolochus Comicus 5)]:—save, keep,
1 of persons, save from death, keep alive, σώοντες ἑταίρους [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.430; ζωοὺς σάω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.238; ὄτ᾽ ἄσφ᾽ ἀπολλυμένοις σάως 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 73, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.38; πόδες καὶ γοῦνα σ. τινά 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.611; νὺξ στρατὸν σ. 9.78)]; spare, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.357)]:—passive, to be saved, kept alive, preserved, opposed to ἀπολέσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.185, etc.; ἀγαπητῶς σεσωσμένους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.16)]; keep a whole skin, escape destruction, οἱ σωθησόμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 176d)]; so in present σωζόμενος, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 68, 235 (assuming variant))]; to be healed, recover from sickness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 136, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.10 (uncertain reading); ὑγιαίνοντες καὶ σωζόμενοι “IG” 22.1028.89 (1st c.BC))]; σώζεο, as a wish, God bless you, farewell, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 150, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.240 (Paul. Sil.), 9.372)]; σώζοισθε [Refs 6th c.AD+ ([prev. work]171 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus))]; also, save oneself, escape, σώθητι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 44b)]; μόγις or μόλις σῴζεσθαι escape with difficulty, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ep.” 332c, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.48, etc.)]; χαλεπῶς σ. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 675.)]
1.b especially in [NT (“NT”, of God or Christ, NT.1Cor.1.21, etc.; σ. τὸ ἀπολωλός NT.Luke.19.10; σ. τὸν κόσμον NT.John.12.47)]:—frequently in passive, to be saved or in a state of salvation, [NT (NT.Matt.19.25, etc.; οἱ σῳζόμενοι NT.Luke.13.23, NT.Act.2.47.)]
2 of things, keep safe, preserve, rare in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, σάω μὲν ταῦτα, σάω δ᾽ ἐμέ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.230; σπέρμα πυρὸς σώζων 5.490)]; πόλιν καὶ ἄστυ σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.144; σαώσει Ἀργείους καὶ νῆας 10.44, compare 9.230)]: frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect, σ. φάρμακον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 686; τὰ τόξα [prev. author] “Ph.” 766)]; τὰ σκεύη, παῖδας οἶκον χρήματα, καρπούς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 730 (_anapaest meter_), “Av.” 380 (troch.), 1062 (Lyric poetry))]; τὰ πατρῷα, τὰ ὑπάρχοντα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 820 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70)]; σ. πόλιν preserve the city or the state, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.34, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 749 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1058, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 417a, compare “Grg.” 512b, etc.; τὰ πράγματα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.74; τὴν Ἑλλάδα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 525 (Lyric poetry))]; τὰς πολιτείας, τὴν δημοκρατίαν, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b15, 36)]; τόνδε γὰρ [λόγον] σῴζων keeping it secret, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 524, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1530)]; σ. καιρόν save or recover an opportunity, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.6, compare 23.4)]:—middle, keep or preserve for oneself, τὴν εὐλάβειαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 993, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 146, etc.; αὐτὸς αὑτῷ σ. τι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 402, compare “Eq.” 1017 (hexameters):)] —passive, τὸ ἄπραγμον οὐ σῴζεται is not secure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.63)]; ἡ.. πόλις οὐκ ἂν ἐσῴζετ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 219)]; to be preserved or extant, of books, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor cited in 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 20, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.705, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 70.2.)]
3 keep, observe, maintain laws, etc., σ. ἐφετμάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 241; τὸν παρόντα νοῦν [prev. author] “Pr.” 394; τοὺς καθεστῶτας νόμους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Virtutibus et Vitiis” 1250b17; τοὺς σοὺς λόγους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1552)]; τὸ μόρσιμον[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 613; τὰ πρὸς τοὺς κατοίκους δίκαια “BGU” 562.19 (2nd c.AD))]; confirm, τὸ τοῦ ποιήσαντος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 400b24, compare 3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 45 (_passive_))]; πρὸς τὸ τὰ φαινόμενα σῴζειν to retain the observed facts, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 5.10)]; κατὰ ποσὸν σῴζει τὴν πρὸς τὸ μῶλυ ἐμφέρειαν retains, i.e. does not lack, a certain resemblance to.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.46, compare 98, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 8)]:—passive, to be maintained, τοῦ μήκους σῳζομένου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 386a2; ἐφ᾽ ᾧ τοῖς θεοῖς τὰ ἱερὰ σωθήσεσθαι “PHib.” 1.77.7 (3rd c.BC).)]
4 keep in mind, remember, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 266, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486c)]: more frequently in middle, παρῆκα θεσμῶν οὐδέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐσῳζόμην.. ὅπως δύσνιπτον ἐκ δέλτου γραφήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 682, compare “El.” 1257; μηδ᾽ ἂ ἔμαθε σῴζοιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 455b; in full, μνήμην σῴζομαι στρατεύματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 302 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 501a, “Tht.” 163d.)]
II Constr.:
II.1 simply with accusative, see above
II.2 with a sense of motion to a place, bring one safe to, τὸν δ᾽ ἐσάωσεν ἐς ποταμοῦ προχοάς [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.452; ἐς ὅμιλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.401; πόλινδε 5.224, etc.; ἐς οἴκους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 311; εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τὴν ἐπουράνιον NT.2Tim.4.18)]:—passive, come safe to a place, σωθέντος ἐμεῦ ὀπίσω ἐς οἶκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, compare 9.104; πρὸς ἤπειρον σεσῶσθαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 737; δεῦρο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 725; οἴκαδε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.7)]; σῴζεσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν ὑμετέρην [χώρην] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98; ἐς δόμους σωθέντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 611; σωθῶμεν ἐπὶ θάλατταν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.20: with _dative_ _person_, μόλις ὔμμιν ἐσώθην 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.4.)]
II.3 σ. τινὰ ἐκ φλοίσβοιο, ἐκ πολέμου, carry off safe, rescue from.. , [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.469, 11.752; ἐκ ποταμοῖο 21.274; ἐκ θανάτοιο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.753; ἐκ πολλῶν πόνων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1356; ἀπὸ στρατείας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 603; διὰ δεινῶν πραγμάτων σεσωσμένοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.8: with _genitive_, σώσας ἐχθρῶν χθόνα)] having rescued it from them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1162; σῶσαί τινα κακοῦ [prev. author] “Ph.” 919; σεαυτὸν νούσου “Ath.Mitt.” 56.124 (from Smyrna))]; σωθῆναι κακῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 779)].--Both constructions may be combined, σ. τινὰ ἐκ πολέμοιο νῆας ἔπι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.452; ἐκ π. μετὰ νῆας 12.123; ἐξ Αἰγίνης δεῦρο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 511d.)]
II.4 with accusative et dative person, save for another, υἷά τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.765; ἡμῖν τὸν βίον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356e, etc.)]:— passive, σῴζεταί τί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1022, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.56.)]
II.5 with infinitive, [σπονδαὶ] αἵ σε σῴζουσιν θανεῖν which save thee from dying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 600 (troch.).)]
II.6 with participle, σῴζεσθαι φεύγοντες by flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.51.)]
II.7 absolutely, τὰ σώσοντα what is likely to save, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.5)]; ἡ σῴζουσα [ψῆφος] [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Harm.” 3.)]
II.7.b σώζων, ὁ, [Refs (“Saviour”, of a god, “JRS” 14.28 (from Iconium))]; epithet of Apollo, [Refs (“CR” 19.368 (from Sizma).)]
II.7.c σῴζουσα, ἡ, ={ἀρτεμισία}, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.113.)]