Lexicon :: Strong's H4422 - mālaṭ

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them[fn] said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ”

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

“Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.[fn]

Ehud escaped while the servants waited. He passed the Jordan near the carved images and reached Seirah.

At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all stout and able-bodied men. Not one of them escaped.

and Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear. As the spear struck the wall, David eluded Saul, ran away, and escaped that night.

Saul asked Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped! ”

She answered him, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you? ’ ”

“He said, ‘Please let me go because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the town, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go so I can see my brothers.’ That’s why he didn’t come to the king’s table.”

So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When David’s brothers and his father’s whole family heard, they went down and joined him there.

However, one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

So David and his men, numbering about six hundred, left Keilah at once and moved from place to place. When it was reported to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he called off the expedition.

David said to himself, “One of these days I’ll be swept away by Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape immediately to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me everywhere in Israel, and I’ll escape from him.”

David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who got on camels and fled.

David asked him, “Where have you come from? ”

He replied to him, “I’ve escaped from the Israelite camp.”

They entered the interior of the house as if to get wheat and stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped.

Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, “Today you have shamed all your soldiers ​— ​those who saved your life as well as your sons, your wives, and your concubines ​— ​

People throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves, saying, “The king rescued us from the grasp of our enemies, and he saved us from the grasp of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

“Now please come and let me advise you. Save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let even one of them escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and slaughtered them there.

“Then Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Jehu.

and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, but King Ben-hadad of Aram escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.

Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and he warned them, “Whoever allows any of the men I am placing in your hands to escape will forfeit his life for theirs.”

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

At that time, the seer Hanani came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Aram and have not depended on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from you.

Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther, “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace.

“the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

“Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ”

or “Deliver me from the enemy’s hand”

or “Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless”?

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

Because his appetite is never satisfied,[fn]

he does not let anything he desires escape.

He will even rescue the guilty one,

who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.

For I rescued the poor who cried out for help,

and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Flaming torches shoot from his mouth;

fiery sparks fly out!

They cried to you and were set free;

they trusted in you and were not disgraced.

The horse is a false hope for safety;

it provides no escape by its great power.

Happy is one who is considerate of the poor;

the LORD will save him in a day of adversity.

What courageous person can live and never see death?

Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

He sent his word and healed them;

he rescued them from their traps.

Then I called on the name of the LORD:

“LORD, save me! ”

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net;

the net is torn, and we have escaped.

Be assured[fn] that a wicked person

will not go unpunished,

but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies will not escape.

The one who trusts in himself[fn] is a fool,

but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.