Survivor
פְּלֵיטָהStrong’s H6413peletah (pe-le-tah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peletah is the Hebrew word usually translated “escaped remnant”, “escaped remnant of” and “deliverance”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.”
Meaning
- Escape, deliveranceescaped remnant
How it's translated
- an escaped remnant 8
- and an escaped remnant 3
- the escaped remnant 3
- escaped remnant of 2
- deliverance 2
- for escaped remnant of 2
- escape 2
- a deliverance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Ezra 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Genesis 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Jeremiah 2
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
- Genesis 45:7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- Exodus 10:5And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
- Judges 21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 15:14And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
- 2 Kings 19:30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּלֵיטָה peletah · survivor
1) escape, deliverance 1a) escape, deliverance 1b) escaped remnant
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.