King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H6413
Transliteration: peletah
Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ay-taw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: an escape
Meaning: deliverance, an escaped portion
Word Summary
peletah: an escape
Original Word: פְלֵיטָהTransliteration: peletah
Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ay-taw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: an escape
Meaning: deliverance, an escaped portion
Strong's Concordance
deliverance, that is escaped, remnant Or pletah {pel-ay-taw'}; feminine of paliyt; deliverance; concretely, an escaped portion -- deliverance, (that is) escape(-d), remnant.
see HEBREW paliyt
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6413. peletah
מְּלֵיטָה noun feminine escape (on form compare BaNB 144, 166); — absolute ׳פ Genesis 32:9 +, מְּלֵטָה Exodus 10:5 +; constructמְּלֵיטַת 2 Kings 19:30 +; —
1 escape, deliverance Genesis 45:7 (E) Jeremiah 25:35.
2 elsewhere probably always escaped remnant:
a. of green things (from locusts) Exodus 10:5 (J) Joel 2:3.
b. of person Genesis 32:9 (J) Judges 21:17; Isaiah 15:9; Jeremiah 50:29; 1 Chronicles 4:43; 2 Chronicles 12:7; 20:24; 30:6; Ezra 9:8; Daniel 11:42; + מִמְּנֵי 2 Samuel 15:14.
c. specifically of those of Judah escaped from Assyrians 2 Kings 19:30-31, (+ מִן) = Isaiah 37:31-32, compare 10:20; from Babylonian Nehemiah 1:2; Ezra 9:13-14, 15, compare Ezekiel 14:22; after ׳י's future judgment Isaiah 4:2; Obadiah 17; Joel 3:5.