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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “saviour”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔː.tɛː.rí.aː/ → /so.tiˈri.a/ → /so.tiˈri.a/
Noun
σωτηρῐ́ᾱ • (sōtēríā) f (genitive σωτηρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- deliverance, salvation
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “σωτηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σωτηρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4991 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- defence idem, page 204.
- deliverance idem, page 208.
- integrity idem, page 448.
- maintenance idem, page 508.
- preservation idem, page 637.
- protection idem, page 653.
- redemption idem, page 684.
- regeneration idem, page 687.
- release idem, page 690.
- safety idem, page 730.
- salvation idem, page 732.
- saving idem, page 735.
- security idem, page 747.
- shelter idem, page 764.
- stability idem, page 808.
- support idem, page 841.
- vindication idem, page 952.