מָלַטmâlaṭ
slip away
Pronunciation: maw-lat' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4422
Meanings
Niph`al: id. (Judges 3:26; Psalms 124:7; Jeremiah 48:19)
1. slip away (1 Samuel 20:29; 2 Samuel 4:6)
2. escape (Judges 3:29; 1 Samuel 19:10; 1 Samuel 19:12)
3. be delivered (Psalms 22:6; Proverbs 11:21; Proverbs 28:26)
Pi`el
1. lay, (eggs; i.e. let them slip out; of arrow-snake) (Isaiah 34:15)
2. let escape (2 Kings 23:18)
3. deliver (Isaiah 46:4; Isaiah 46:2; Jeremiah 39:18)
Hiph`il
1. give birth to (Isaiah 66:7)
2. deliver (Isaiah 31:5)
Hithpa`el
1. slip forth, escape (Job 41:11)
2. escape (Job 19:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 95 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:17 When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
- Genesis 19:19 “You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.
- Genesis 19:20 See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don’t you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”
- Genesis 19:22 But hurry! Escape to it, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” (This explains why that village was known as Zoar, which means “little place.”)
- Judges 3:26 While the servants were waiting, Ehud escaped, passing the stone idols on his way to Seirah.
- Judges 3:29 They attacked the Moabites and killed about 10,000 of their strongest and most able-bodied warriors. Not one of them escaped.
See every passage
- Genesis 19:17, 19:19, 19:20, 19:22
- Judges 3:26, 3:29
- 1 Samuel 19:10, 19:11, 19:12, 19:17, 19:18, 20:29, 22:1, 22:20, 23:13, 27:1, 30:17
- 2 Samuel 1:3, 4:6, 19:5, 19:9
- 1 Kings 1:12, 18:40, 19:17, 20:20
- 2 Kings 10:24, 19:37, 23:18
- 2 Chronicles 16:7
- Esther 4:13
- Job 1:15, 1:16, 1:17, 1:19, 6:23, 19:20, 20:20, 22:30, 29:12, 41:19
- Psalms 22:5, 33:17, 41:1, 89:48, 107:20, 116:4, 124:7
- Proverbs 11:21, 19:5, 28:26
- Ecclesiastes 7:26, 8:8, 9:15
- Isaiah 20:6, 31:5, 34:15, 37:38, 46:2, 46:4, 49:24, 49:25, 66:7
- Jeremiah 32:4, 34:3, 38:18, 38:23, 39:18, 41:15, 46:6, 48:6, 48:8, 48:19, 51:6, 51:45
- Ezekiel 17:15, 17:18, 33:5
- Daniel 11:41, 12:1
- Joel 2:32
- Amos 2:14, 2:15, 9:1
- Zechariah 2:7
- Malachi 3:15
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).