Quick Definition
to escape
Strong's Definition
to slip out, i.e. escape; causatively, to deliver
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: calve, carry away safe, deliver, (cause to) escape.
TWOT Reference: 1774
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּלַט (pa.lat) — to escape. 1) to escape, save, deliver, slip away 1a) (Qal) to escape 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to bring into security, deliver 1b2) to cause to escape, cast forth 1b3) to be delivered 1b4) to slip away 1c) (Hiphil) to bring into security, bring to safety
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִפְלָט · פָּלִיט · פָּלֵיט · פְּלֵיטָה · פְּלַטְיָה · פְּלַטְיָהוּ
Safe | verb qal, verb pi
to escape, to get away, to be saved, to be delivered = process by which humans find safety from a dangerous or life-threatening situation
Safe | verb pi | ≈ ישׁע · יֵשַׁע · נצל · שׂגב · שׁמר · שׁפט
to rescue, to deliver = causative action by which deities remove humans from a dangerous or life-threatening situation
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Titles
Deliverer literally: (one's) deliverer; hence: = a title for God as the one who removes his people from dangerous or life-threatening situations
Safe | verb hif
to carry off, to bring into security = causative action by which animals remove objects from a situation regarded as threatening by them
Birth | verb pi | ≈ מלט
to deliver (as in childbirth), to bring forth, to calve literally: to deliver; hence: = causative action by which human or animal females give birth to offspring
Birth | verb hif | ≈ מלט
to deliver, bring forth a child literally: to deliver; hence: = causative action by which human females give birth to offspring, with focus on a successful completion of the process
1 JOB 23:7 The piel is often revocalized as a qal. 2 PSA 56:8 NIV REB ESV | RSV "recompense" NRSV "repay" GNT "punish" = פלס | NJPS "cast out" NJB "reject"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּלַט] vb. escape Qal and (if) escapers of them escape.
Pi. bring into security
cause to escape, cast forth, of cow calving
appar. intrans. be delivered
Hiph. bring into security
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