Ancient Greek

Noun

σωτήρ • ‎(sōtḗr) m ‎(genitive σωτῆρος); third declension

1. saviour, deliverer, preserver (often as an epithet of protecting gods, especially Zeus)

Inflection

Descendants

• English: soterial, soteriology
• Greek: σωτήρας ‎(sotíras)

References

• σωτήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σωτήρ» 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
• “G4990”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deliverer idem, page 208.
  • maintainer idem, page 508.
  • preserver idem, page 637.
  • protector idem, page 653.
  • regenerator idem, page 687.
  • rescuer idem, page 701.
  • restorer idem, page 705.
  • saviour idem, page 736.
  • supporter idem, page 841.
  • upholder idem, page 938.