The Root: יָשַׁע | The God Who Rescues

You have been told you were "saved." But the Hebrew word behind that concept does not mean what you were taught.

You have been told you were “saved.” But the Hebrew word behind that concept does not mean what you were taught…

Before We Begin

This is a root word study. We work from the ground up.

Nothing in the Brit Chadashah (New Testament) is actually new. Every concept, every promise, every pattern that Yeshua and the apostles invoke was already living in the Tanakh centuries before a single Greek sentence was written. The Tanakh speaks first. Always. The question I bring to every text is the same: what did this word mean in its original language, to its original audience, in its original context? If you start there, Scripture will not let you down. If you skip it, you will spend your whole life reading someone else’s interpretation and calling it the Word of God.

The word we are opening today is one of the most used and most abused words in the entire biblical vocabulary. It has been spiritualized, transactionalized, and turned into a product. It has been emptied of its body, stripped of its story, and repackaged as fire insurance. The word is יָשַׁע (yasha). And if you have ever said “I am saved,” you owe it to yourself to find out what that word actually means before you keep saying it.