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פַּלֵּט pallêṭ — escape

pronounced pal-late' · Strong's H6405 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as deliverance, escape.

from H6403; escape.

pallêṭ in each stem

Pi'el

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Infinitive construct 1Imperative 1

פַלֵּ֑ט Ps 32:7 Infinitive construct

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. (KJV)

פַּלֶּט Ps 56:8 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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