Strong's Definition
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
KJV Usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָלַט (ma.lat) — to escape. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Flee | verb nif | ≈ נוס
to escape = action by which humans move away as fast as possible from a place that is considered insecure ► in order to save their lives
GEN 19:17 · GEN 19:17 · GEN 19:19 · GEN 19:20 · GEN 19:22 · JDG 3:26 · JDG 3:26 · JDG 3:29 · 1SA 19:10 · 1SA 19:12 · 1SA 19:17 · 1SA 19:18 · 1SA 22:1 · 1SA 22:20 · 1SA 23:13 · 1SA 27:1 · 1SA 27:1 · 1SA 27:1 · 1SA 30:17 · 2SA 1:3 · 2SA 4:6 · 1KI 18:40 · 1KI 19:17 · 1KI 19:17 · 1KI 20:20 · 2KI 10:24 · 2KI 19:37 · 2CH 16:7 · JOB 1:15 · JOB 1:16 · JOB 1:17 · JOB 1:19 · PSA 124:7 · PSA 124:7 · ISA 37:38 · JER 41:15 · JER 46:6 · JER 48:19 · AMO 9:1 · ZEC 2:11
Move | verb hit
to escape, to shoot out literally: to escape; hence: = process by which objects come out of a certain location, possibly with some speed or force
Move | verb nif
to slip away literally: to escape; hence: = action by which humans leave a certain location unnoticed
Birth | verb pi
to lay (an egg) literally: to cause to escape; hence: = causative action by which birds produce an egg from inside the body
Birth | verb hif | ≈ ילד · פלט
to bring forth literally: to cause to escape; hence: = causative action by which human females give birth to offspring
Safe | verb nif, verb hit | ≈ ישׁע · פְּלֵיטָה
to escape, to be delivered, to go free literally: to escape; hence: = process by which humans are able to elude danger or suffering
EST 4:13 · JOB 19:20 · JOB 22:30 · PSA 22:6 · PRO 11:21 · PRO 19:5 · PRO 28:26 · ECC 7:26 · ISA 20:6 · ISA 49:24 · ISA 49:25 · JER 32:4 · JER 34:3 · JER 38:18 · JER 38:23 · JER 48:8 · EZK 17:15 · EZK 17:15 · EZK 17:18 · DAN 11:41 · DAN 12:1 · JOL 3:5 · MAL 3:15
Safe | verb pi, verb hif | ≈ גנן · נצל · פדה · פסח · תְּשׁוּעָה
to deliver, to rescue, to save literally: to cause to escape; hence: = causative process by which humans, deities or animals cause humans to elude danger or suffering
2SA 19:10 · 2KI 23:18 · JOB 6:23 · JOB 20:20 · JOB 22:30 · JOB 29:12 · PSA 33:17 · PSA 41:2 · PSA 107:20 · ECC 8:8 · ECC 9:15 · ISA 31:5 · ISA 46:2 · ISA 46:4 · JER 39:18 · JER 39:18
Safe | verb pi
Collocation: מלט נֶפֶשׁ
to save (someone's) life literally: to cause someone's self to escape; hence: = causative action by which humans or deities save themselves or others from death
1SA 19:11 · 2SA 19:6 · 1KI 1:12 · PSA 89:49 · PSA 116:4 · JER 48:6 · JER 51:6 · JER 51:45 · EZK 33:5 · AMO 2:14 · AMO 2:15 · AMO 2:15
1 2KI 10:24 Most commentators have argued that the verb should be read as a piel instead of a niphal 2 PSA 33:17 Although the passive of σῴζω in the LXX implies the reading of a niph (יִמָּלֵט) cf. Tg) rather than the piel, the verb may not require revocalisation. There may be an implied indefinite object, and the Peshitta does include an object in its translation (see piel Versions, Peshitta). 3 AMO 2:15 The passive of διασῴζω in the LXX implies the reading of the niphal (יִמָּלֵט) cf. Vg, Tg, Pesh), but this may be a characteristic alteration by the Versions to assist the sense. The piel, if retained, would have to be interpreted as intransitive, or to share the same object נפשׁו with the verb in the next line.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָלַט] vb. slip away (not in Qal) Niph. slip away
escape
pass. be delivered
Pi. lay (eggs)
let escape
deliver
Hiph. give birth to a male child
deliver
Hithp. slip forth, escape (sparks of fire from jaws of crocodile)
escape
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