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# מִפְלָט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4655

**escape** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

escape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4655/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִפְלָט²: escape place of escape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4655/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] escape (Hup Bae) or place of escape (We Du);—ψ 55:9 si vera l.; 𝔅 Che מְפַלֵּט deliverer.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a place of escape (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 55:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.9/#tree)

אָחִ֣ישָׁה מִפְלָ֣ט לִ֑י מֵר֖וּחַ סֹעָ֣ה מִסָּֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* I.want.to.make.haste a.place.of.escape my from a.wind rushing from a.storm

*JPS 1917:* I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4655.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4655/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).