To escape
מָלַטStrong’s H4422malat (ma-lat)
Appears in 85 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Malat is the Hebrew word usually translated “escaped”, “escape” and “have escaped”. It appears in 85 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.”
Meaning
- To slip away, escape, deliver, save, be delivered(Niphal) · (Piel) · (Hiphil) · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- and he escaped 7
- he will escape 6
- and i have escaped 5
- escape 4
- he escaped 4
- they escaped 3
- and save 3
- you will escape 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 12
- 1 Samuel 11
- Job 10
- Isaiah 9
- Psalms 7
- Genesis 4
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:1In contextAnd at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
- Zechariah 2:7In contextDeliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
- Genesis 19:17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
- Genesis 19:19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
- Genesis 19:20Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
- Genesis 19:22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
All 85 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מָלַט malat · to escape
1) to slip away, escape, deliver, save, be delivered 1a)(Niphal) 1a1) to slip away 1a2) to escape 1a3) to be delivered 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to lay, let slip out (of eggs) 1b2) to let escape 1b3) to deliver, save (life) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to give birth to 1c2) to deliver 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to slip forth, slip out, escape 1d2) to escape
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “escape” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ESCA'PE, verb transitive
[Latin capio, with a negative prefix, or from a word of the same family.]
- To flee from and avoid; to get out of the way; to shun; to obtain security from; to pass without harm; as, to escape danger.“A small number, that escape the sword, shall return” Jeremiah 44:28“Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” 2 Peter 1:4
- To pass unobserved; to evade; as, the fact escaped my notice or observation.
- To avoid the danger of; as, to escape the sea. Acts 28:1
All definitions and other forms of “escape”
ESCA'PE, verb intransitive
To flee, shun and be secure from danger; to avoid an evil.
- To be passed without harm.
ESCA'PE, noun
Flight to shun danger or injury; the act of fleeing from danger.
- “I would hasten my escape from the windy storm” Psalms 55:8
- A being passed without receiving injury, as when danger comes near a person, but passes by, and the person is passive.
- Excuse; subterfuge; evasion.
- In law, an evasion of legal restraint or the custody of the sheriff, without due course of law.
- Sally; flight; irregularity. [Little used.]
- Oversight; mistake. [Little used, or improper.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.