פָּלִיט

Genesis 14:13 הַפָּלִ֔יט the fugitive

Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.

Here: 'The one who escaped': someone who got away from the rout described in v. 10. The word 'the' marks him as the figure every such story expects, the survivor who brings the news, not a person the reader has already met.

Numbers 21:29 פְּלֵיטִם֙ fugitives

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Joshua 8:22 וּפָלִֽיט׃ and a fugitive

Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.

Judges 12:4 פְּלִיטֵ֤י [are] fugitives of

Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

Judges 12:5 פְּלִיטֵ֤י [the] fugitives of

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

2 Kings 9:15 פָלִיט֙ an escapee

but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

Isaiah 45:20 פְּלִיטֵ֣י O fugitives of

Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

Here: 'Escapees of,' meaning people who got away from a disaster such as war or slaughter. It does not mean criminals running from the law. Here it most likely means the peoples who lived through the upheavals that Cyrus's conquests brought.

Isaiah 66:19 פְּ֠לֵיטִים survivors

I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.

Here: People who got away alive from a disaster or battle. Here: those who escaped the fiery judgment of vv.15–16, where 'many will be slain by the LORD'.

Jeremiah 42:17 וּפָלִ֔יט and an escapee

So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

Jeremiah 44:14 פָּלִ֤יט פְּלֵטִֽים׃ ס an escapee, fugitives

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”

Here: One who slips away alive from a slaughter or a defeated city. The first of a stock pair of words for 'survivors'.

Jeremiah 44:28 וּפְלִיטֵ֨י and escapees of

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

Here: People who slip out of a disaster alive: fugitives, not rescued heroes. It opens the verse with a narrow exception to the sweeping doom of v. 27.

Jeremiah 50:28 וּפְלֵטִ֖ים and escapees

Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

Here: "And those who got away": the standard word for the few who survive a catastrophe. Paired with "fleeing ones", it describes people who have escaped Babylon's fall alive.

Jeremiah 51:50 פְּלֵטִ֣ים O escapees

You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”

Here: A direct address: 'you who got away'. The word names people who slipped out of a disaster alive, a small surviving remnant rather than a victorious army.

Lamentations 2:22 פָּלִ֣יט an escapee

You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

Ezekiel 6:8 פְּלִ֥יטֵי escapees of

Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

Here: People who got away: refugees who escaped a slaughter. The word says nothing about their character. It only says they survived.

Ezekiel 6:9 פְלִֽיטֵיכֶ֜ם escapees your

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

Here: Refugees who got away from the sword (v. 8 says 'escapees of the sword'). They are what is left of a disaster, not people who earned their survival. The address shifts here: 'your' survivors, then 'their' hearts.

Ezekiel 7:16 פְּלִ֣יטֵיהֶ֔ם escapees their

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Here: A noun from the same root as the verb: 'their escapees will escape.' The doubling stresses that these are mere leftovers, people who got away, not people rescued. A fugitive or refugee, not a victor.

Ezekiel 24:26 הַפָּלִ֖יט the escapee

on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.

Ezekiel 24:27 הַפָּלִ֔יט the escapee

On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

Ezekiel 33:21 הַפָּלִ֧יט the escapee

In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”

Ezekiel 33:22 הַפָּלִ֔יט the escapee

Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

Here: Someone who got away from a catastrophe. The word 'the' points back to the specific fugitive God promised in 24:26–27, the one whose arrival would unlock Ezekiel's mouth.

Amos 9:1 פָּלִֽיט׃ an escapee

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

Here: A survivor who got out of a disaster, the person who usually lives to tell what happened. Here even that person is denied.

Obadiah 1:14 פְּלִיטָ֑יו fugitives his

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.