פָּלַט pâlaṭ — to slip out, i.e. escape
Translated in the KJV as calve, carry away safe, deliver, escape.
a primitive root; to slip out, i.e. escape; causatively, to deliver.
pâlaṭ in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Participle (active) 6Imperative 4Wayyiqtol 3Cohortative 1
And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›