# H4422 מָלַט

מָלַט (mâlaṭ), Strong’s H4422: 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…

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*mâlaṭ* — 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]…

Occurs 95 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 19:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=17) — 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…
- [Genesis 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19) — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…
- [Genesis 19:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=20) — 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…
- [Genesis 19:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=22) — Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- [Judges 3:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=26) — Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.
- [Judges 3:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=29) — They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.
- [1 Samuel 19:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=10) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 19:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=11) — Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him…
- [1 Samuel 19:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=12) — So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
- [1 Samuel 19:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=17) — Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered…