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# פָּלֵיט

Biblical Hebrew

**refugee** — used 5 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

refugee [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b5_5d9_5d8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּלֵיט: n.m. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b5_5d9_5d8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id.;—pl. פְּלֵיטִם Nu 21:29 (as appos., or adj.), ים—ִ Is 66:19; פְּלֵטִים Je 44:14, + מִן from 50:28; 51:50.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fugitives (2); O escapees (1); escapees (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:50](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.50/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.50/#tree)

פְּלֵטִ֣ים מֵחֶ֔רֶב הִלְכ֖וּ אַֽל־תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ זִכְר֤וּ מֵֽרָחוֹק֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם תַּעֲלֶ֥ה עַל־לְבַבְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* O.escapees from.\[the\] sword go do.not stand.still remember from a.distance (et) Yahweh and Jerusalem let.it.come.up on heart your

*JPS 1917:* Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

[Jeremiah 50:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.28/#tree)

ק֥וֹל נָסִ֛ים וּפְלֵטִ֖ים מֵאֶ֣רֶץ בָּבֶ֑ל לְהַגִּ֣יד בְּצִיּ֗וֹן אֶת־נִקְמַת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ נִקְמַ֖ת הֵיכָלֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].sound of.\[those.who\].flee and escapees from the.land of.Babylon to declare in Zion (et) the.vengeance of.Yahweh God our the.vengeance his.temple his

*JPS 1917:* Hark! they flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of His temple.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b5_5d9_5d8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b5_5d9_5d8/): 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).