Survivor
פָּלִיטStrong’s H6412palit (pa-lit)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Palit is the Hebrew word usually translated “escapee”, “fugitives” and “fugitives of”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.”
Meaning
- Refugee, fugitive, escaped one
- Refugee, fugitive, escaped one
How it's translated
- an escapee 4
- the escapee 4
- fugitives 2
- fugitives of 2
- the fugitive 1
- and a fugitive 1
- o fugitives of 1
- survivors 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 7
- Jeremiah 5
- Judges 2
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:29Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
- Joshua 8:22And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
- Judges 12:4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
- Judges 12:5And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
- 2 Kings 9:15But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
- Isaiah 45:20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּלִיט palit · survivor
refugee, fugitive, escaped one Also means: pa.let (פָּלֵיט "survivor" H6412B)
פָּלֵיט palet · survivor
refugee, fugitive, escaped one Another spelling of pa.lit (פָּלִיט "survivor" H6412A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “survivor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SURVI'VOR, noun
One who outlives another.
- In law, the longer liver of two joint tenants, or of any two persons who have a joint interest in any thing.
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.