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# פְּלֵיטָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6413

**escape** — used 28 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

escape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6413/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּלֵיטָה: n.f. escape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6413/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. escape (on form cf.\> BaNB 144, 166);—abs. פ׳ Gn 32:9 +, פְּלֵטָה Ex 10:5 +; cstr. פְּלֵיטַת 2 K 19:30 +;— escape, deliverance Gn 45:7 (E) Je 25:35. elsewhere prob. always escaped remnant: of green things (from locusts) Ex 10:5 (J) Jo 2:3. of pers. Gn 32:9 (J) Ju 21:17 Is 15:9 Je 50:29 1 Ch 4:43 2 Ch 12:7; 20:24; 30:6 Ezr 9:8; Dn 11:42; + מִפְּנֵי 2 S 15:14. specif. of those of Judah escaped from Assyrian 2 K 19:30, 31 (+ מִן) = Is 37:31, 32, cf. Is 10:20; from Bab. Ne 1:2 Ezr 9:13, 14, 15, cf. Ez 14:22; after י׳’s future judgment Is 4:2; Ob 17; Jo 3:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an escaped remnant (9); the escaped remnant (5); deliverance (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 21:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.21.17/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ יְרֻשַּׁ֥ת פְּלֵיטָ֖ה לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן וְלֹֽא־יִמָּחֶ֥ה שֵׁ֖בֶט מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.said a.possession of.\[the\].escaped.remnant \[belongs\].to Benjamin and not it.will.be.wiped.out a.tribe from Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

[Jeremiah 25:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.35/#tree)

וְאָבַ֥ד מָנ֖וֹס מִן־הָֽרֹעִ֑ים וּפְלֵיטָ֖ה מֵאַדִּירֵ֥י הַצֹּֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.lost a.place.of.escape from the shepherds and escape from the.noble.\[ones\] of the.flock

*JPS 1917:* And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6413.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6413/): 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).