To escape
פָּלַטStrong’s H6403palat (pa-lat)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Palat is the Hebrew word usually translated “deliverer my”, “deliver” and “deliver me”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;”
Meaning
- To escape, save, deliver, slip away(Qal) to escape · (Piel) · (Hiphil) to bring into security, bring to safety
How it's translated
- and deliverer my 5
- deliver 3
- deliver me 2
- you will bring to safety 2
- and you rescued me 1
- it calves 1
- and i will deliver 1
- you delivered me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 17
- 2 Samuel 2
- Job 2
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Micah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
- Job 21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
- Job 23:7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
- Psalms 17:13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
- Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
- Psalms 18:43Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּלַט palat · 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
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.