Strong's #4422: malat (pronounced maw-lat')
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:--deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mâlaṭ
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 95 times:
Genesis 19:17: "when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look"
Genesis 19:17: "thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed."
Genesis 19:19: "my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil"
Genesis 19:20: "and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?)"
Genesis 19:22: "Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing"
Judges 3:26: "And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped"
Judges 3:26: "and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath."
Judges 3:29: "and all men of valor; and there escaped not a man."
1 Samuel 19:10: "the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night."
1 Samuel 19:11: "told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight,"
1 Samuel 19:12: "let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped."
1 Samuel 19:17: "and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul,"
1 Samuel 19:18: "So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told"
1 Samuel 20:29: "I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren."
1 Samuel 22:1: "David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam:"
1 Samuel 22:20: "of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David."
1 Samuel 23:13: "they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah;"
1 Samuel 27:1: "there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines;"
1 Samuel 27:1: "there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines;"
1 Samuel 27:1: "me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand."
1 Samuel 30:17: "them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save"
2 Samuel 1:3: "comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped."
2 Samuel 4:6: "rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped."
2 Samuel 19:5: "of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons"
2 Samuel 19:9: "us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines;"
1 Kings 1:12: "let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son"
1 Kings 18:40: "let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to"
1 Kings 19:17: "And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth"
1 Kings 19:17: "the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu"
1 Kings 20:20: "them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen."
2 Kings 10:24: "have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life"
2 Kings 19:37: "smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son"
2 Kings 23:18: "man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet"
2 Chronicles 16:7: "therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand."
Esther 4:13: "Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all"
Job 1:15: "of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell"
Job 1:16: "and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell"
Job 1:17: "of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell"
Job 1:19: "the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell"
Job 6:23: " Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?"
Job 19:20: "cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
Job 20:20: "quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired."
Job 22:30: " He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands."
Job 22:30: "He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands."
Job 29:12: "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help"
Job 41:19: "go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out."
Psalms 22:5: "They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded."
Psalms 33:17: "is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength."
Psalms 41:1: "is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble."
Psalms 89:48: "and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?"
