Hebrew word · H6405
פַּלֵּט
falet
deliverance
Root plṭ: to escape, slip away, get out alive. In the causative forms it means to bring to safety or rescue. Related words are pālîṭ ('fugitive, survivor') and pelêṭāh ('remnant, those who escaped').
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
deliverance, escape
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
Root plṭ: to escape, slip away, get out alive. In the causative forms it means to bring to safety or rescue. Related words are pālîṭ ('fugitive, survivor') and pelêṭāh ('remnant, those who escaped').
- Against the English
'Deliverance' (most versions) is accurate but abstract. The Hebrew carries the picture of escaping, of survivors who got out. NLT's 'victory' shifts the image from escape to triumph.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Ps 18:2 ('my deliverer', mefalṭî); Ps 22:4–5 ('they trusted, and you delivered them'); Ps 56:7 (where the same form pallēṭ appears in an obscure line). The supplied data tags the form here as a verb (an infinitive used like a noun), while Strong's lists it as a noun. The meaning is the same either way.
Where it appears
Psalms · 1
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Psalm 32:7 פַלֵּ֑ט deliverance; [surely]
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
Here: 'Of escape': being brought out alive. The root is used for slipping out of danger and for survivors (pālîṭ, 'a fugitive, one who escaped'). The cries are those of people who got out.
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