Hebrew word · H6406

פַּלְטִי

palti

Palti

A personal name from the root p-l-ṭ, 'escape, be delivered'. It is a short form of Palti'el, 'God is my deliverance' (or 'my escape').

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 21, 2026

What it means

A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Num.13.9;

son of: Raphu (H7505)

§ Palti or Phalti = "my deliverance"

1) son of Raphu, the spy chosen from the tribe of Benjamin

2) son of Laish, the man to whom king Saul gave his daughter Michal in marriage even though she was already married to David

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Range of meaning: A personal name from the root p-l-ṭ, 'escape, be delivered'. It is a short form of Palti'el, 'God is my deliverance' (or 'my escape').
Against the English: KJV and YLT spell it 'Phalti', following older conventions. BSB, WEB, ESV and NASB have 'Palti'. Some versions (the NIV, as far as can be determined) use 'Paltiel', taken from 2 Sam 3:15, so that readers recognise the same man.
Used elsewhere in the period: In 2 Sam 3:15–16 Ishbosheth takes Michal 'from her husband, from Paltiel son of Laish', and 'her husband went with her, weeping as he walked behind her, as far as Bahurim', until Abner sends him home. Later rabbinic tradition (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 19b) made him a model of restraint, claiming he never consummated the marriage because he knew she was still David's wife. That is a later interpretation, not something the biblical text states.

Numbers · 1

1 Samuel · 1

1 Samuel 25:44 לְפַלְטִ֥י to Palti

But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

Here: The receiving husband. The name comes from the root 'escape, deliverance' and is a short form of Paltiel, 'God is my deliverance', the name he bears in 2 Sam 3:15.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.