{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4422",
  "lemma": "מָלַט",
  "transliteration": "mâlaṭ",
  "definition": "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…",
  "kjv": "deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, [idiom]…",
  "occurrences": 95,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[מָלַט] vb. slip away (not in Qal)",
    "Niph.",
    "1. slip away",
    "2. escape",
    "3. pass. be delivered",
    "Pi.",
    "1. lay (eggs)",
    "2. let escape",
    "3. deliver",
    "Hiph.",
    "1. give birth to a male child",
    "2. deliver",
    "Hithp.",
    "1. slip forth, escape (sparks of fire from jaws of crocodile)",
    "2. escape"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:17",
      "text": "It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:19",
      "text": "See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:20",
      "text": "See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:22",
      "text": "Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 3:26",
      "text": "Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 3:29",
      "text": "They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 19:10",
      "text": "Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 19:11",
      "text": "Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 19:12",
      "text": "So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 19:17",
      "text": "Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=17"
    }
  ],
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