KJV Dictionary Definition: rescue

rescue

RESCUE, v.t. res'cu.L. re and quatio.

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger or evil; to liberate from actual restraint, or to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from an officer; to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.

So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not.

1Sam. 14. 30. Ps. 35.

Cattle taken by distress contrary to law, may be rescued by the owner, while on their way to the pound.

Estimate the value of one soul rescued from eternal guilt and agony, and destined to grow forever in the knowledge and likeness of God.

rescued

RES'CUED, pp. Delivered from confinement or danger; or forcibly taken from the custody of the law.

rescuing

RES'CUING, ppr. Liberating from restraint or danger; forcibly taking from the custody of the law.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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