Rescue

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

(2): ( v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

(3): ( v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

(4): ( v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

(5): ( v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἐξαιρέω (Strong'S #1807 — Verb — exaireo — ex-ahee-reh'-o )

"to take out" (ek, "from," haireo, "to take"), is used of "delivering" from persons and circumstances, and translated "rescued" in  Acts 23:27 . See Deliver , No. 8, Pluck

King James Dictionary

Rescue 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.

 1 Samuel 14 . 30 .  Psalms 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.