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פְּלֵיטָה (H6413)

pᵉlêyṭâh

pel-ay-taw'

or פְּלֵטָה; feminine of פָּלִיט; deliverance; concretely, an escaped portion; deliverance, (that is) escape(-d), remnant.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

פְּלֵיטָה n.f. escape
1 escape, deliverance
2 elsewh. prob. alw. escaped remnant

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


28 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 32:8
    And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
  • Genesis 45:7
    And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
  • Exodus 10:5
    And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
  • Judges 21:17
    And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
  • 2 Samuel 15:14
    And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
  • 2 Kings 19:30
    And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
  • 2 Kings 19:31
    For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
  • 1 Chronicles 4:43
    And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
  • 2 Chronicles 12:7
    And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
  • 2 Chronicles 20:24
    And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.