deliverance: being rescued from danger or enemies, especially the victory that God gives
This is a word for rescue that actually happens. It names the moment a person or a nation is pulled out of real trouble, whether that trouble is an enemy army, a personal crisis, or the threat of death. It is not an inner or spiritual feeling but a concrete outcome: the danger is over and someone has been saved.
Its two everyday uses grow from that one idea. In the war stories of Israel it means the winning of a battle, the moment defeat turns into victory. In the prayers of the Psalms it means the rescue a person begs God to bring, or thanks him for bringing. The same word covers both because a battle won and a life spared are, at heart, the same event: someone in danger is delivered.
A recurring point ties the uses together. Again and again the writers insist that this rescue belongs to God alone. A war horse cannot secure it, human princes cannot supply it, sheer numbers cannot guarantee it. Whether the setting is a battlefield or a prayer of distress, the deliverance is finally God's to give.