Ancient Hebrew Meaning of Salvation

[gregoryfl]

Salvation means many things to many people, but what we find in the scripture can all be traced back to an agricultural image we all have seen, the growth of a plant from a seed.

The concrete meaning of the word has to do with spaciousness.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5638259/ah/a.png)(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5638259/ah/shu.png) is the 2 letter marriage root of both the state and action of what we today call 'salvation'. It depicts a stripping upward action, which is what happens when a seed sprouts. As it drinks in the water given to it, its life as a seed is stripped away, and, in doing so, it loses its current life as a dormant seed to gain life as an expanding plant, expressing the life once hidden inside it.

The seed is first planted in the ground, a place where it is dark and confining, which may be likened to bondage. When it sprouts and pushes its way out of the ground into the open air, this is the time when it enters spaciousness and sunlight. This is the picture given to us by our Creator of what salvation is, to be freed from bondage and darkness to experience spaciousness and light.

Ronen

[micah7:9]

 :dsunny: I like that

[Seth]

Me too  :dsunny:

[eaglesway]

 :dsunny: Me three.

And He will separate the wheat from the chaff, and He will gather the wheat into the barn, and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

[sheila]

Psalms 18;18,19   they confronted me in the day of my disaster but the Lord was my

support. He brought me out into a spacious place;He rescued me because He

delighted in me

   [He rescued e from my powerful enemies..from my foes who were too strong for me.]

    .......

[eaglesway]

Psalms 18;18,19   they confronted me in the day of my disaster but the Lord was my

support. He brought me out into a spacious place;He rescued me because He

delighted in me

   [He rescued e from my powerful enemies..from my foes who were too strong for me.]

    .......

awesome!

[joeteekay]

Salvation means many things to many people, but what we find in the scripture can all be traced back to an agricultural image we all have seen, the growth of a plant from a seed.

The concrete meaning of the word has to do with spaciousness.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5638259/ah/a.png)(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5638259/ah/shu.png) is the 2 letter marriage root of both the state and action of what we today call 'salvation'. It depicts a stripping upward action, which is what happens when a seed sprouts. As it drinks in the water given to it, its life as a seed is stripped away, and, in doing so, it loses its current life as a dormant seed to gain life as an expanding plant, expressing the life once hidden inside it.

The seed is first planted in the ground, a place where it is dark and confining, which may be likened to bondage. When it sprouts and pushes its way out of the ground into the open air, this is the time when it enters spaciousness and sunlight. This is the picture given to us by our Creator of what salvation is, to be freed from bondage and darkness to experience spaciousness and light.

Ronen

Hey Ronen, you bring a perspective on the symbolic Hebrew interpretation that perhaps may accurately describe the intent and deeper understanding of the Hebrew.  The English word salvation is derived from Latin.
It is H3444 ישׁוּעה - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Number.

Salvation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Salvation (disambiguation).
Salvation (Latin salvatio; Greek sōtēria; Hebrew yeshu'ah) is being saved or protected from harm[1] or being saved or delivered from some dire situation.[2] In religion, salvation is stated as the saving of the soul from sin and its consequences.[3]
Dictionary definition:
noun
1.
the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
2.
the state of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.
3.
a source, cause, or means of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.
4.
Theology . deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English salvatio ( u ) n  < Late Latin salvātiōn-  (stem of salvātiō ), equivalent to salvāt ( us ) (past participle of salvāre  to save1 ; see -ate1 ) + -iōn- -ion; replacing Middle English sa ( u ) vaciun, sauvacion  < Old French sauvacion  < Late Latin,  as above
H3444 ישׁוּעה - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Number
KJV Usage: deliverance, health, help (-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions
ישׁוּעה

1. salvation, deliverance
a. welfare, prosperity
b. deliverance
c. salvation (by God)
d. victory

It is interesting that H3443 is closely related.

H3443 ישׁוּע - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Number
ישׁוּע
yêshûa‛
yah-shoo'-ah
(Chaldee); corresponding to H3442
KJV Usage: Jeshua.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions
ישׁוּע
Jeshua = "he is saved"
1. an exilic priest who returned with Zerubbabel
Origin: corresponding to H3442

The thought of going from darkness (bondage) to light (sun of righteousness - Christ) is a wonderful truth