peleta · escape, survivors

What it means

peleta (פְּלֵיטָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “escape, survivors”.

Escape, deliverance; those who escape, the survivors.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Managing to get out of danger: the escape.
2. The small group that survives a defeat or a disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• escape ×11
• escaped ×9
• escapees ×5
• deliverance ×1
• escapes ×1
• survivors ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Joel×2
• Obadiah×1

• Genesis 32:8

  For he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp that is left will escape.”

• Genesis 45:7

  Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

• Exodus 10:5

  They will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat what is left of what escaped, what remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you in the field.

• Judges 21:17

  And they said, “There must be a possession for those who escaped of Benjamin, and a tribe must not be blotted out from Israel.

• 2 Samuel 15:14

  David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, “Get up, and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry to go, or he will quickly overtake us and bring the evil down on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

• 2 Kings 19:30

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• 2 Kings 19:31

  For from Jerusalem will go out a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• 1 Chronicles 4:43

  And they struck the remnant of those who had escaped of Amalek, and they have lived there to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 12:7

  When YHWH saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of YHWH came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, and I will give them escape in a little while, and my fury will not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

• 2 Chronicles 20:24

  When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they turned toward the multitude, and look, they were corpses fallen to the ground, and there was no escape.

• 2 Chronicles 30:6

  So the runners went with the letters from the hand of the king and his officials through all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “Sons of Israel, return to YHWH, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to those who escaped who are left to you from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

• Ezra 9:8

  And now, for a brief moment there has been favor from YHWH our Elohim, to leave us escapees, and to give us a peg in his holy place, that our Elohim may brighten our eyes and give us a little life in our servitude.

• Ezra 9:13

  And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, for you, our Elohim, have held back punishment below our iniquity, and have given us escapees like these,

• Ezra 9:14

  shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples of these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you made an end of us, so that there is no remnant or escapees?

• Ezra 9:15

  YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left as escapees, as at this day. Here we are before you in our guilt, for it is not possible to stand before you because of this.”

• Nehemiah 1:2

  that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and some men from Judah; and I asked them about the Jews, the escapees who had been left from the captivity, and about Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 4:2

  On that day the sprout of YHWH will be an ornament and glory, and the fruit of the land will be loftiness and beauty for the escaped of Israel.

• Isaiah 10:20

  And it will happen on that day that the remnant of Israel and the escaped of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them, but will lean on YHWH, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

• Isaiah 15:9

  For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring upon Dimon additions: for the escaped of Moab a lion, and for the remnant of the ground.

• Isaiah 37:31

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• Isaiah 37:32

  For from Jerusalem will go out a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• Jeremiah 25:35

  And flight will perish from the shepherds, and escape from the nobles of the flock.

• Jeremiah 50:29

  Summon against Babylon archers, all who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let there be no escape for her. Repay her according to her deeds; according to all that she has done, do to her; for against YHWH she has acted insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.

• Ezekiel 14:22

  And look, there will be left in it survivors brought out, sons and daughters; look, they are coming out to you, and you will see their way and their deeds, and you will be comforted over the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.

• Daniel 11:42

  And he will stretch out his hand against the lands, and the land of Egypt will not have escape.

• Joel 2:3

  Before it fire devours, and behind it flame blazes; like the garden of Eden is the land before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness; and nothing escapes it.

• Joel 2:32

  And it will happen that everyone who calls on the name of YHWH will be delivered; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be escape, as YHWH has said, and among the survivors will be those whom YHWH calls.”

• Obadiah 1:17

  But on Mount Zion there will be an escape, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.