6412. paliyt
Lexical Summary
paliyt: Refugee, fugitive, escapee

Original Word: פָלִיט
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: paliyt
Pronunciation: pah-LEET
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-leet')
KJV: (that have) escape(-d, -th), fugitive
Word Origin: [from H6403 (פָּלַט - deliver)]

1. a refugee

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
that have escaped fugitive

Or paleyt {paw-late'}; or palet {paw-late'}; from palat; a refugee -- (that have) escape(-d, -th), fugitive.

see HEBREW palat

Brown-Driver-Briggs
מָּלִיט noun masculineAmos 9:1 escaped one, fugitive; — ׳פ absolute 2 Kings 9:15 +; plural construct מְּלִיטֵי Judges 12:4 +; suffix מְּלִיטָיו Obadiah 14, etc.; — Amos 9:1; 2 Kings 9:15; Genesis 14:13; Ezekiel 24:26,27; Ezekiel 33:21 ( + מִן local), Ezekiel 33:22; ׳שָׂרִיד וּפ Joshua 8:22; Jeremiah 42:17; וְשָׂרִיד ׳פ Jeremiah 44:14; Lamentations 2:22; with Genitive subject Judges 12:5 fugitives of Ephraim (strike out in Judges 12:4, see GFM), so with suffix Ezekiel 6:9; Ezekiel 7:16; Obadiah 14; with Genitive object, escaped of, i.e. from Isaiah 45:20, so מְּלִיטֵי חֶרֶב Jeremiah 44:28; Ezekiel 6:8.

[מָּלֵיט] noun masculine id.; — plural מְּלֵיטִם Numbers 21:29 (as appositive, or adjective), יִ֯ם Isaiah 66:19; מְּלֵטִים Jeremiah 44:14, + מִן from Jeremiah 50:28; Jeremiah 51:50.

Topical Lexicon
Meaning and Scope

פָלִיט denotes a person who has escaped danger—whether from warfare, judgment, or calamity—and so has become a “fugitive,” “survivor,” or “one delivered.” The word’s range of usage moves from concrete historical reporting to richly theological portraits of the preserved remnant through whom the purposes of God continue.

Historical Narratives: Firsthand Reports of Escape

1. Genesis 14:13 introduces the term in Scripture: “Then a survivor came and told Abram the Hebrew …”. This unnamed refugee links the patriarch to Lot’s plight and sets in motion Abram’s rescue mission. The fugitive serves as a messenger whose deliverance enables covenant faithfulness to advance.

2. Joshua 8:22 records the annihilation of Ai: “None of them survived or escaped.” Here פָלִיט marks total defeat; no one bears witness afterward. The absence of a fugitive underscores the completeness of divine judgment executed through Israel.

3. Judges 12:4–5 depicts civil conflict among the tribes. Those attempting to flee the fords of the Jordan become a tragic example of fractured unity within God’s people—survivors in name only.

4. In 2 Kings 9:15 a “fugitive” brings news that catalyzes Jehu’s coup. Again a palit is a critical eyewitness whose escape shapes national destiny.

Prophetic Literature: Theological Emphasis on the Remnant

Prophets repeatedly employ פָלִיט to threaten or to comfort, weaving the idea of a surviving nucleus that preserves covenant continuity.

Isaiah 45:20 calls the nations, “Gather together and come; draw near, you fugitives of the nations.” The prophet envisions displaced peoples streaming to the Lord alone for salvation, exposing the emptiness of idols.

Isaiah 66:19 extends the theme: God will “send survivors to the nations … and they will proclaim My glory among the nations.” The preserved remnant becomes missionary heralds, previewing the spread of the Gospel to every tribe.

• Jeremiah’s triple use in Jeremiah 42:17; 44:14 (twice) warns Judeans who fled to Egypt that no “survivor or fugitive” will return except a tiny number (44:28). The word sharpens judgment yet safeguards God’s promise by ensuring a vestige remains.

Jeremiah 50:28 and 51:50 portray fleeing Israelites escaping Babylon, heralding Zion’s vindication. The fugitives’ very existence guarantees a future for the covenant community beyond exile.

Ezekiel 6:8-9 predicts that after severe judgment “I will leave a remnant, some who escape the sword among the nations.” Their repentance will vindicate God’s disciplinary love. Subsequent texts (7:16; 24:26-27; 33:21-22) show such survivors bringing firsthand news of Jerusalem’s fall, validating the prophet’s words.

Amos 9:1 and Obadiah 1:14 strike a sobering note: Edom’s violence against Judah’s refugees will bring its own doom. The fate of fugitives becomes a measure of a nation’s moral standing before God.

Fugitives as Bearers of Revelation

Whether in Genesis, Kings, or Ezekiel, the palit frequently functions as a courier whose testimony confirms God’s word. Their escape is never random; it is providentially arranged so that truth may reach its appointed audience. In this way the motif anticipates the New Testament pattern of persecuted believers scattering with the Gospel (Acts 8:4).

Moral and Theological Themes

1. Divine Judgment and Mercy: פָלִיט conveys both edges of God’s dealings—severity toward sin and mercy toward His people. Judgment is so precise that it spares exactly those whom God intends to preserve.

2. The Doctrine of the Remnant: The term feeds into the larger biblical theme that amid widespread unfaithfulness God keeps a faithful seed (cf. Romans 9–11). The Old Testament fugitives prefigure the Church, a people delivered from wrath and commissioned to bear witness.

3. Human Responsibility: Nations and individuals are evaluated by their treatment of fugitives (Obadiah 1:14), highlighting ethics of compassion, hospitality, and justice.

Eschatological and Christological Reflections

Isaiah’s depiction of survivors proclaiming God’s glory foreshadows the Great Commission. Just as ancient fugitives carried news of earthly events, redeemed believers—once “fugitives” from sin—announce the victory of the risen Christ. In the Day of the Lord, ultimate deliverance will belong to “everyone whose name is found written in the book” (Daniel 12:1), the final company of God’s palit.

Ministry Implications

• Pastoral Comfort: Believers facing oppression can take courage that God still appoints survivors; His purposes cannot be annulled by hostile powers.

• Missional Urgency: Those delivered from judgment become heralds. Churches are called to echo the pattern of the palit—escapees who testify.

• Ethical Mandate: Scripture’s concern for fugitives fuels modern commitments to refugees, displaced persons, and persecuted saints, embodying divine compassion in practical ways.

Summary

פָלִיט threads through Scripture as a signpost of God’s redemptive sovereignty. From Abram’s day to the prophetic horizon, every survivor testifies that judgment does not have the final word; mercy preserves a remnant through whom salvation history moves forward toward its fulfillment in Jesus Christ and the gathering of all who have found refuge in Him.

Forms and Transliterations
הַפָּלִ֔יט הַפָּלִ֖יט הַפָּלִ֧יט הפליט וּפְלִיטֵ֨י וּפְלֵטִ֖ים וּפָלִ֔יט וּפָלִֽיט׃ ופלטים ופליט ופליט׃ ופליטי פְּ֠לֵיטִים פְּלִ֣יטֵיהֶ֔ם פְּלִ֥יטֵי פְּלִיטֵ֣י פְּלִיטֵ֤י פְּלִיטָ֑יו פְּלֵטִ֣ים פְּלֵטִֽים׃ פְּלֵיטִם֙ פְלִֽיטֵיכֶ֜ם פָּלִ֣יט פָּלִ֤יט פָּלִֽיט׃ פָלִיט֙ פלטים פלטים׃ פליט פליט׃ פליטי פליטיהם פליטיו פליטיכם פליטים פליטם faLit feliteiChem hap·pā·lîṭ happaLit happālîṭ pā·lîṭ p̄ā·lîṭ paLit pālîṭ p̄ālîṭ pə·lê·ṭim pə·lê·ṭîm pə·lî·ṭāw pə·lî·ṭê pə·lî·ṭê·hem p̄ə·lî·ṭê·ḵem peleiTim peleTim pəlêṭim pəlêṭîm peliTav pəlîṭāw pəlîṭê pəlîṭêhem peliTei peLiteiHem p̄əlîṭêḵem ū·p̄ā·lîṭ ū·p̄ə·lê·ṭîm ū·p̄ə·lî·ṭê ufaLit ufeleTim ufeliTei ūp̄ālîṭ ūp̄əlêṭîm ūp̄əlîṭê
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Genesis 14:13
HEB: וַיָּבֹא֙ הַפָּלִ֔יט וַיַּגֵּ֖ד לְאַבְרָ֣ם
NAS: Then a fugitive came and told
KJV: And there came one that had escaped, and told
INT: came A fugitive and told Abram

Numbers 21:29
HEB: נָתַ֨ן בָּנָ֤יו פְּלֵיטִם֙ וּבְנֹתָ֣יו בַּשְּׁבִ֔ית
NAS: his sons as fugitives, And his daughters
KJV: his sons that escaped, and his daughters,
INT: has given his sons fugitives and his daughters captive

Joshua 8:22
HEB: ל֖וֹ שָׂרִ֥יד וּפָלִֽיט׃
NAS: of those who survived or escaped.
KJV: none of them remain or escape.
INT: was left who escaped

Judges 12:4
HEB: כִּ֤י אָמְרוּ֙ פְּלִיטֵ֤י אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם
NAS: they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim,
KJV: Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim
INT: because said are fugitives of Ephraim O

Judges 12:5
HEB: כִּ֣י יֹאמְר֞וּ פְּלִיטֵ֤י אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ אֶעֱבֹ֔רָה
NAS: when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim
KJV: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said,
INT: when said the fugitives of Ephraim cross

2 Kings 9:15
HEB: אַל־ יֵצֵ֤א פָלִיט֙ מִן־ הָעִ֔יר
NAS: [then] let no one escape [or] leave
KJV: go forth [nor] escape out of the city
INT: no forth one at the city

Isaiah 45:20
HEB: הִֽתְנַגְּשׁ֥וּ יַחְדָּ֖ו פְּלִיטֵ֣י הַגּוֹיִ֑ם לֹ֣א
NAS: together, you fugitives of the nations;
KJV: together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations:
INT: Draw together fugitives of the nations no

Isaiah 66:19
HEB: וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֣י מֵהֶ֣ם ׀ פְּ֠לֵיטִים אֶֽל־ הַגּוֹיִ֞ם
NAS: among them and will send survivors from them to the nations:
KJV: among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations,
INT: and will send like survivors about the nations

Jeremiah 42:17
HEB: לָהֶם֙ שָׂרִ֣יד וּפָלִ֔יט מִפְּנֵי֙ הָֽרָעָ֔ה
NAS: survivors or refugees from the calamity
KJV: and none of them shall remain or escape from
INT: will have survivors refugees their mind the evil

Jeremiah 44:14
HEB: וְלֹ֨א יִהְיֶ֜ה פָּלִ֤יט וְשָׂרִיד֙ לִשְׁאֵרִ֣ית
NAS: So there will be no refugees or survivors
KJV: to sojourn there, shall escape or remain,
INT: will be no become refugees survivors the remnant

Jeremiah 44:14
HEB: כִּ֥י אִם־ פְּלֵטִֽים׃ ס
NAS: will return except [a few] refugees.'
INT: for lo refugees

Jeremiah 44:28
HEB: וּפְלִיטֵ֨י חֶ֜רֶב יְשֻׁב֨וּן
NAS: Those who escape the sword will return
KJV: number that escape the sword
INT: who the sword will return

Jeremiah 50:28
HEB: ק֥וֹל נָסִ֛ים וּפְלֵטִ֖ים מֵאֶ֣רֶץ בָּבֶ֑ל
NAS: of fugitives and refugees from the land
INT: sound of fugitives and refugees the land of Babylon

Jeremiah 51:50
HEB: פְּלֵטִ֣ים מֵחֶ֔רֶב הִלְכ֖וּ
NAS: You who have escaped the sword,
INT: who the sword Depart

Lamentations 2:22
HEB: אַף־ יְהוָ֖ה פָּלִ֣יט וְשָׂרִ֑יד אֲשֶׁר־
NAS: And there was no one who escaped or survived
KJV: anger none escaped nor remained:
INT: anger of the LORD'S who survived whom

Ezekiel 6:8
HEB: בִּהְי֥וֹת לָכֶ֛ם פְּלִ֥יטֵי חֶ֖רֶב בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם
NAS: for you will have those who escaped the sword
KJV: Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword
INT: will leave will have who the sword the nations

Ezekiel 6:9
HEB: וְזָכְר֨וּ פְלִֽיטֵיכֶ֜ם אוֹתִ֗י בַּגּוֹיִם֮
NAS: Then those of you who escape will remember
KJV: And they that escape of you shall remember
INT: will remember who the nations to which

Ezekiel 7:16
HEB: וּפָֽלְטוּ֙ פְּלִ֣יטֵיהֶ֔ם וְהָי֣וּ אֶל־
NAS: Even when their survivors escape,
KJV: But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains
INT: escape their survivors become on

Ezekiel 24:26
HEB: הַה֔וּא יָב֥וֹא הַפָּלִ֖יט אֵלֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁמָע֖וּת
NAS: that on that day he who escapes will come
KJV: [That] he that escapeth in that day
INT: he will come who to you information

Ezekiel 24:27
HEB: פִּ֙יךָ֙ אֶת־ הַפָּלִ֔יט וּתְדַבֵּ֕ר וְלֹ֥א
NAS: will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak
KJV: be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak,
INT: will be opened your mouth who will speak no

Ezekiel 33:21
HEB: בָּא־ אֵלַ֨י הַפָּלִ֧יט מִירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם לֵאמֹ֖ר
NAS: month, the refugees from Jerusalem
KJV: [day] of the month, [that] one that had escaped out of Jerusalem
INT: came about the refugees Jerusalem saying

Ezekiel 33:22
HEB: לִפְנֵי֙ בּ֣וֹא הַפָּלִ֔יט וַיִּפְתַּ֣ח אֶת־
NAS: before the refugees came.
KJV: afore he that was escaped came;
INT: before came the refugees opened my mouth

Amos 9:1
HEB: יִמָּלֵ֥ט לָהֶ֖ם פָּלִֽיט׃
NAS: who will flee, Or a refugee who will escape.
KJV: of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
INT: not will escape A refugee

Obadiah 1:14
HEB: לְהַכְרִ֖ית אֶת־ פְּלִיטָ֑יו וְאַל־ תַּסְגֵּ֥ר
NAS: To cut down their fugitives; And do not imprison
KJV: to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up
INT: the fork to cut their fugitives not imprison

24 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 6412
24 Occurrences


p̄ā·lîṭ — 1 Occ.
p̄ə·lî·ṭê·ḵem — 1 Occ.
hap·pā·lîṭ — 5 Occ.
pā·lîṭ — 3 Occ.
pə·lê·ṭim — 2 Occ.
pə·lê·ṭîm — 2 Occ.
pə·lî·ṭāw — 1 Occ.
pə·lî·ṭê — 4 Occ.
pə·lî·ṭê·hem — 1 Occ.
ū·p̄ā·lîṭ — 2 Occ.
ū·p̄ə·lê·ṭîm — 1 Occ.
ū·p̄ə·lî·ṭê — 1 Occ.

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