4.4.4 Respond to someone in trouble

Use this domain for words related to responding to someone in trouble.

OMC Codes: 
748 Social Work
Louw Nida Codes: 
25M Encouragement, Consolation
  • What words refer to the response of a person who sees someone in trouble?
    response, help, aid

    • 4.4.4.1 Mercy

    Use this domain for words related to having mercy on someone who has done something bad.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88J Mercy, Merciless
  • What words refer to having mercy on someone?
    have mercy, be merciful, be compassionate, feel sorry for, have a heart, be kind, empathize, empathy, pity (v), spare,
  • What words describe someone who has mercy on another person?
    merciful, compassionate, humane, lenient, long-suffering, sparing,
  • What words refer to the act of having mercy?
    mercy, mercies, clemency, compassion, empathetic, forbearance, kindness, leniency, pity (n),
  • What words describe someone who does not have mercy on other people?
    merciless, unmerciful, heartless, pitiless, ruthless, ruthlessness,
  • What words describe someone who needs mercy?
    pitiable,

    • 4.4.4.2 Show sympathy, support

    Use this domain for words related to showing sympathy and support to someone in trouble.

  • What words refer to showing sympathy for someone in trouble?
    feel sympathy, empathize with, feel with, sympathetic, comfort, console, compassion,

    • 4.4.4.3 Gentle

    Use this domain for words related to being gentle.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88H Gentleness, Mildness
  • What words refer to being gentle with someone or something?
    be gentle, careful, mild

    • 4.4.4.4 Save from trouble

    Use this domain for words related to saving someone or something from trouble (something bad is happening) or danger (something bad will happen).

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    21C Safe, Free from Danger
    21D Become Safe, Free from Danger
    21E Cause To Be Safe, Free from Danger
  • What words refer to saving someone from trouble?
    save, save someone's life, rescue (v), come to someone's rescue, mount a rescue, release, come to the aid of, preserve life, cover, defend, deliver, ensure someone's safety, extricate, free, guard, harbor, hide, insurance, insure, keep, preserve, protect, ransom, recover, retrieve, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvage, screen, secure someone's safety, grant asylum, shelter, shield, spare, pick up (a survivor), get someone out of, bail out, throw someone a lifeline, grant safe conduct
  • What words refer to the act of saving someone?
    salvation, rescue (n), defense, deliverance, extrication, recovery,
  • What words refer to saving yourself?
    make it to safety, get to safety, avoid, break, bypass, dodge, duck, elude, escape, evade, evasion, flee, shake, shy away from, sidestep, give someone the slip,
  • What words describe someone who is safe?
    safe, clear, found, free, guarded, immune, impregnable, intact, invulnerable, protected, secure, security, sheltered, unharmed, unhurt, unscathed, untouched, welfare, be out of danger, at a safe distance, be in good hands, safe and sound, with a whole skin
  • What words refer to a person who saves someone?
    savior, defender, deliverer, liberator, rescuer, protector, guardian
  • What words refer to a place where you are safe?
    safety, place of safety, refuge, sanctuary, shelter, safe house, safe harbor, haven, stronghold, asylum, hideout, retreat

    • 4.4.4.5 Protect

    Use this domain for words related to protecting someone from danger or being hurt.

    Related domains: 
    4.8.3.7 Weapon, shoot
  • What words refer to protecting someone?
    protect, protection, protective, guard, safeguard, fortify, secure, watch, keep safe, keep, insulate, encircle, defend, defense
  • What is a person called who protects someone?
    protector, guard, watchman, defender, advocate, sentry, bodyguard, defensive force
  • What words are used for a place where someone is protected?
    fortress, fort, castle, battlement, moat, fortification
  • What words refer to something used to protect someone?
    armor, shield, guard,

    • 4.4.4.6 Free from bondage

    Use this domain for words related to freeing someone from bondage.

    Related domains: 
    3.3.4.5 Free to do what you want
  • What words refer to freeing someone from bondage?
    liberated, be free, unfettered, unbound, unchained, unleashed, pardoned, release (n), released, reprieve, parole, unrestrained, licensed, authorized, unconfined

    • 4.4.4.7 Relief

    Use this domain for words related to relief.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    22E Relief from Trouble
  • What words refer to relieving someone?
    relieve someone's suffering, bring relief, give relief, allay, alleviate, assuage, ease someone's load, lighten someone's load, mitigate, bring respite, soften the blow, soothe
  • What words refer to relief from trouble?
    relief

    • 4.4.4.8 Risk

    Use this domain for words referring to risk--exposing oneself or something to danger.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    21B Expose Oneself to Danger
  • What words refer to risking something?
    risk, run a risk, expose (oneself to danger), hazard, wager, dare