To escape
שָׂרַדStrong’s H8277sarad (sa-rad)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sarad is the Hebrew word usually translated “survived”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to escape, survive
How it's translated
- they survived 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂרַד sarad · to escape
(Qal) to escape, survive
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.