1. מלט
slip away, escape
The corpus record — Hebrew
הִמָּלֵ֣ט
malat
slip away, escape
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 95 · 3.1/10k
Senses
2. מָלַט
slip away
3. מָלַט
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
Attestations
- הִמָּלֵ֣ט Genesis 19:17 (BHS)
- הִמָּלֵ֖ט Genesis 19:17 (BHS)
- לְ/הִמָּלֵ֣ט Genesis 19:19 (BHS)
- אִמָּלְטָ֨ה Genesis 19:20 (BHS)
- הִמָּלֵ֣ט Genesis 19:22 (BHS)
- נִמְלַ֖ט Judges 3:26 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.