מָלַט (ma.lat) means “to escape” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: maw-lat' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מָלַט · ma.lat · 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
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a primitive root; properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
KJV glosses: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] surely.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| escape | 13 |
| and escaped | 5 |
| escaped | 5 |
| have escaped | 5 |
| run | 5 |
| save | 5 |
| will escape | 3 |
| had escaped | 2 |
| i have escaped | 2 |
| to escape | 2 |
| whoever escapes | 2 |
| will be delivered | 2 |
| and deliver you | 1 |
| and escape | 1 |
| and he has escaped | 1 |
| and i will slip | 1 |
| and preserve it | 1 |
| and took refuge | 1 |
| and were set free | 1 |
| and yet escape | 1 |
| be delivered | 1 |
| can he deliver | 1 |
| deliver | 1 |
| deliver me | 1 |
| delivered us | 1 |
| escapes | 1 |
| flee | 1 |
| has escaped | 1 |
| have slipped away | 1 |
| he rescued them | 1 |
| he will deliver even | 1 |
| he would have saved | 1 |
| i rescued | 1 |
| i will surely rescue you | 1 |
| let me flee | 1 |
| let me go | 1 |
| of them escaped | 1 |
| or the woman escaping | 1 |
| release | 1 |
| rescuing him | 1 |
| saved | 1 |
| she delivered | 1 |
| she will lay | 1 |
| shoot forth | 1 |
| slipped away | 1 |
| things escape | 1 |
| to relieve | 1 |
| undisturbed | 1 |
| who have saved | 1 |
| will be retrieved | 1 |
| will be safe | 1 |
| will be saved | 1 |
| will deliver him | 1 |
| you alone will escape | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| escape | 6 |
| escaped | 6 |
| deliver | 5 |
| and escaped | 4 |
| shall be delivered | 4 |
| and i only am escaped | 3 |
| and thou shalt not escape out | 3 |
| and there escaped | 2 |
| and they escaped | 2 |
| delivered | 2 |
| shall escape | 2 |
| shall not escape | 2 |
| alone | 1 |
| am i escaped | 1 |
| and be delivered | 1 |
| and deliver | 1 |
| and he delivered | 1 |
| and her that escapeth | 1 |
| and him that escapeth | 1 |
| and how shall we escape | 1 |
| and i am escaped | 1 |
| and it is delivered | 1 |
| and lay | 1 |
| and we are escaped | 1 |
| and will deliver | 1 |
| are even delivered | 1 |
| because i delivered | 1 |
| but these shall escape | 1 |
| for i will surely | 1 |
| have saved | 1 |
| he shall be delivered | 1 |
| he shall deliver | 1 |
| he shall not escape | 1 |
| he shall not save | 1 |
| he will preserve | 1 |
| him that escapeth | 1 |
| i should speedily | 1 |
| if thou save | 1 |
| is escaped | 1 |
| leap out | 1 |
| let me get away | 1 |
| neither shall he deliver | 1 |
| not deliver | 1 |
| of her and deliver | 1 |
| of them escape | 1 |
| of them shall not be delivered | 1 |
| oh let me escape | 1 |
| or deliver | 1 |
| save | 1 |
| shall deliver | 1 |
| shall he deliver | 1 |
| shall he escape | 1 |
| shall not deliver | 1 |
| she was delivered | 1 |
| so shall i escape | 1 |
| that he is escaped | 1 |
| that thou mayest save | 1 |
| that thou shalt escape | 1 |
| thee deliver | 1 |
| thee escape | 1 |
| them and delivered | 1 |
| them and i only am escaped | 1 |
| thence and escaped | 1 |
| unto thee and were delivered | 1 |
| was escaped | 1 |
| will deliver | 1 |
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As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Read word by wordYour servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Read word by wordLook, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
Read word by wordHurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
Read word by wordEhud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
Read word by wordAt that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.
Read word by wordSaul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David eluded him and the spear struck the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
Read word by wordThen Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
Read word by wordSo Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
Read word by wordAnd Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
Read word by wordSo David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
Read word by wordsaying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
Read word by wordSo David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
Read word by wordBut one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.
Read word by wordThen David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.
Read word by wordDavid, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Read word by wordAnd David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
Read word by word“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
Read word by wordThey entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.
Read word by wordThen Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.6
And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.10
Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
Read word by wordThen Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
Read word by wordThen Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Jehu.
Read word by wordand each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with the cavalry.
Read word by wordAnd they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
Read word by wordOne day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Read word by word“Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Read word by wordAt that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
Read word by wordhe sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
Read word by wordthe Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Read word by wordWhile he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Read word by wordWhile he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Read word by wordwhen suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Read word by worddeliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
Read word by wordMy skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Read word by wordBecause his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
Read word by wordHe will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”
Read word by wordbecause I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Read word by wordFirebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 41.11
They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.6
A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
Read word by wordFor the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 41.2
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.49
He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
Read word by wordThen I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”
Read word by wordWe have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Read word by wordBe assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
Read word by wordA false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
Read word by wordHe who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
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