palit · fugitive, survivor

What it means

palit (פָּלִיט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fugitive, survivor”.

Someone who escaped from a battle or a disaster.

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. Someone who got out alive from a battle or disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• fugitive ×8
• fugitives ×4
• escape ×3
• those who escape ×2
• One who had escaped ×1
• You who have escaped ×1
• some escaped ones ×1
• survivor ×1
• those who escaped ×1
• who escapes ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×6
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×7
• Amos×1
• Obadiah×1

• Genesis 14:13

  One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.

• Numbers 21:29

  Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.

• Joshua 8:22

  And these came out from the city to meet them, so that they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them until no survivor or fugitive was left to them.

• Judges 12:4

  Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they had said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim, in the midst of Manasseh.”

• Judges 12:5

  Gilead took the fords of the Jordan against Ephraim; and it would happen that when the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” And he would say, “No.”

• 2 Kings 9:15

  but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Jehu said, “If this is your will, let no survivor get out of the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

• Isaiah 45:20

  Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who escaped from the nations. They do not know, those who carry the wood of their carved image and pray to a god that cannot save.

• Isaiah 66:19

  And I will set among them a sign, and I will send from them those who escaped to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, Tubal and Javan, the distant coastlands that have not heard my fame nor seen my glory; and they will declare my glory among the nations.

• Jeremiah 42:17

  And it will be that all the men who have set their faces to go to Egypt to reside as aliens there will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; and they will have no survivor or fugitive from the evil that I am bringing on them.

• Jeremiah 44:14

  And there will be no fugitive or survivor of the remnant of Judah who have come to reside as aliens there, in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah, where they lift up their soul to return to live there; for they will not return, except some escaped ones.”

• Jeremiah 44:28

  And those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to reside as aliens there will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

• Jeremiah 50:28

  A sound of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of YHWH our Elohim, the vengeance for his temple.

• Jeremiah 51:50

  You who have escaped the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember YHWH from afar, and let Jerusalem come up into your heart.

• Lamentations 2:22

  You have summoned, as on a day of appointed feast, my terrors from all around; and there was not in the day of the anger of YHWH a fugitive or a survivor; those whom I raised with care and brought up, my enemy has consumed them.

• Ezekiel 6:8

  But I will leave a remnant, in that you will have those who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered in the lands.

• Ezekiel 6:9

  And those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, when I was broken with their heart that prostitutes itself, which turned away from me, and with their eyes that prostitute themselves after their idols; and they will loathe themselves for the evils that they did in all their abominations.

• Ezekiel 7:16

  And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 24:26

  that on that day the fugitive will come to you to make it heard in your ears?

• Ezekiel 24:27

  On that day your mouth will be opened with the fugitive, and you will speak and will not be mute anymore; and you will be to them a wonder, and they will know that I am YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 33:21

  And it came about in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, that the fugitive from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been struck.”

• Ezekiel 33:22

  And the hand of YHWH had been upon me in the evening before the fugitive came, and he opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

• Amos 9:1

  I saw Adonai standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the capital, so that the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them; and the last of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them who flees will get away, and not one of them who escapes will be delivered.

• Obadiah 1:14

  Nor should you have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives, nor handed over his survivors on the day of distress.

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