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Lexicon :: Strong's H4422 - mālaṭ

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מָלַט
Transliteration
mālaṭ
Pronunciation
maw-lat'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1198

Strong’s Definitions

מָלַט mâlaṭ, maw-lat'; a primitive root; 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:—deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, × speedily, × surely.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 95x

The KJV translates Strong's H4422 in the following manner: escape (47x), deliver (33x), save (5x), ...out (4x), alone (1x), get away (1x), lay (1x), preserve (1x), speedily (1x), surely (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 95x
The KJV translates Strong's H4422 in the following manner: escape (47x), deliver (33x), save (5x), ...out (4x), alone (1x), get away (1x), lay (1x), preserve (1x), speedily (1x), surely (1x).

  1. to slip away, escape, deliver, save, be delivered

    1. (Niphal)

      1. to slip away

      2. to escape

      3. to be delivered

    2. (Piel)

      1. to lay, let slip out (of eggs)

      2. to let escape

      3. to deliver, save (life)

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to give birth to

      2. to deliver

    4. (Hithpael)

      1. to slip forth, slip out, escape

      2. to escape

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָלַט mâlaṭ, maw-lat'; a primitive root; 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:—deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, × speedily, × surely.
STRONGS H4422: Abbreviations
† [מָלַט] verb slip away (not in Qal) (Late Hebrew מִילּוּט rescue; Targum מְלַט (rare) = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic bdb057203 is have scanty hair; IV. cast the foetus without hair; [slip away, escape from hand is bdb057204]); —
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִמְלַט Judges 3:26 + 6 times; 3rd person feminine singular נִמְלְטָה Psalm 124:7, with וְ consecutive וְנִמְלָ֑טָה Jeremiah 48:19; 3rd person masculine plural נִמְלָ֑טוּ 2 Samuel 4:6 + 8 times Perfect; Imperfect יִמָּלֵט Amos 9:1 + 13 times; וַיִּמּ׳ Judges 3:26 + 7 times; 1st person singular אִמָּֽלְטָה Genesis 19:20 +; 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּמָּלֵ֑טוּ Malachi 3:15 + 12 times Imperfect; Imperative הִמָּלֵט Genesis 19:17 (twice in verse); Genesis 19:22; feminine הִמָּֽלְטִי Zechariah 2:11; Infinitive absolute הִמָּלֵט 1 Samuel 27:1; (but read אִם אִמָּלֵט Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Löhr HPS; > Th Kit Bu insert אִם before הִמּ׳); construct id., Genesis 19:19; Esther 4:3; Participle נִמְלָט 1 Kings 19:17 (twice in verse); —
1. slip away אִמָּֽלְטָה נָּא וְאֶרְאֶה אֶתאֶֿחָ֑י 1 Samuel 20:29 let me slip away to see my brethren; slip through, or past (into the house) 2 Samuel 4:6 (compare Dr HPS and Pi. 1, Hiph. 2; > Klo *נִלְאָ֑טוּ, √ לאט, after Greek Version of the LXX ἔλαθον).
2. escape, Judges 3:29; 1 Samuel 19:10 (|| נוּס) 1 Samuel 19:12; 1 Samuel 19:18 (both || בָּרַח), 1 Samuel 19:17; 1 Samuel 22:20 (|| בָּרַח), 1 Samuel 30:17; 1 Kings 18:40; 1 Kings 20:20 (|| נוּס) 2 Kings 10:24; Isaiah 20:6 (|| נִצַּל, נוּס), Isaiah 49:24, 25; Jeremiah 46:6; Jeremiah 48:8, 19 (|| נוּס), Ezekiel 17:15 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 17:18; Amos 9:1; Joel 3:5; Zechariah 2:11; Malachi 3:15; Psalm 124:7; Proverbs 19:6; Job 1:15, 16, 17, 19; with מִן of place whence 1 Samuel 23:13; 2 Samuel 1:3; Psalm 124:7; with אֶלֿ = whither 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Samuel 27:1 (twice in verse); with עַד Judges 3:26; with ָ  ה locative, Genesis 19:17, 19, 20, 22 (J), Judges 3:26; with accusative 2 Kings 19:37 = Isaiah 37:38; Esther 4:13; with מִן of person from whom Ecclesiastes 7:26; with מִיַּד 1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Chronicles 16:7; Jeremiah 32:4; Jeremiah 34:3; Jeremiah 38:18, 23; Daniel 11:41; מִפְּנֵי Jeremiah 41:15; מֵחֶרֶב 1 Kings 19:17 (twice in verse); with עַלנֶֿפֶשׁ for one's life Genesis 19:17.
3. passive be delivered Psalm 22:6; Proverbs 11:21; Proverbs 28:26; Job 22:30; Daniel 12:1 (later usage).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מִלֵּט Ezekiel 33:5; וּמִלַּטֿ Ecclesiastes 9:15; suffix מִלְּטֵ֫נוּ 2 Samuel 19:10; Imperfect יְמַלֵּט Amos 2:14 + 8 times, suffix יְמַלְּטֵ֫הוּ Psalm 41:2; + 5 times Imperfect; Imperative מַלְּטָה Psalm 116:4; feminine מַלְּטִי 1 Kings 1:12; + 4 times Imperative; Infinitive absolute מַלֵּט Isaiah 46:2; Jeremiah 39:18; Participle מְמַלֵּט 1 Samuel 19:11; plural מְמַלְּטִים 2 Samuel 19:6; —
1. lay (eggs; i.e. let them slip out; of arrow-snake) Isaiah 34:15.
2. let escape: וימלטו עצמתיו 2 Kings 23:18 and so they let his bones (the prophet's) escape (from the burning).
3. deliver, absolute Isaiah 46:4; with accusative Isaiah 46:2; Jeremiah 39:18 (twice in verse); Psalm 41:2; Job 22:30; Job 29:12; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 9:15; with מִיַּד Job 6:23; מִכַּף 2 Samuel 19:10; מִשְּׁחִיתוֺתָם Psalm 107:20; elsewhere מִלֵּט נֶפֶשׁ deliver, save, life 1 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 19:6; 1 Kings 1:12; Jeremiah 48:6; Jeremiah 51:6, 45; Ezekiel 33:5; Amos 2:14, 15; Psalm 89:49; Psalm 116:4; נפשׁ. omitted Amos 2:15; Psalm 33:17; Job 20:20. — (This form not in Hexateuch, Judges, Chronicles, Isa1)
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִמְלִיט Isaiah 31:5; 3rd person feminine singular הִמְ֫לִיטָה Isaiah 66:7.
1. give birth to a male child Isaiah 66:7 (|| יָֽלְדָה, compare Pi. 1).
2. deliver: absolute Isaiah 31:5 (|| גָּנַן, הִצִּיל, פָּסַח).
Hithp. Imperfect 1st person singular וָאֶתְמַלְּטָה Job 19:20; 3rd person masculine plural יִתְמַלְּטוּ Job 41:11.
1. slip forth, escape (sparks of fire from jaws of crocodile; RV leap forth) Job 41:11.
2. escape (with the skin of the teeth, the gums; only these left unattacked by leprosy) Job 19:20.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:17; 19:17; 19:17; 19:19; 19:19; 19:20; 19:20; 19:22; 19:22

Judges

3:26; 3:26; 3:26; 3:26; 3:29

1 Samuel

19:10; 19:11; 19:11; 19:12; 19:17; 19:18; 20:29; 22:1; 22:20; 23:13; 27:1; 27:1; 27:1; 30:17

2 Samuel

1:3; 4:6; 4:6; 19:6; 19:6; 19:10; 19:10

1 Kings

1:12; 1:12; 18:40; 19:17; 19:17; 20:20

2 Kings

10:24; 19:37; 23:18

2 Chronicles

16:7

Esther

4:3; 4:13

Job

1:15; 1:16; 1:17; 1:19; 6:23; 19:20; 19:20; 20:20; 22:30; 22:30; 29:12; 41:11; 41:11

Psalms

22:6; 33:17; 41:2; 41:2; 89:49; 107:20; 116:4; 116:4; 124:7; 124:7; 124:7

Proverbs

11:21; 19:6; 28:26

Ecclesiastes

7:26; 8:8; 9:15; 9:15

Isaiah

20:6; 31:5; 31:5; 34:15; 37:38; 46:2; 46:2; 46:4; 49:24; 49:25; 66:7; 66:7

Jeremiah

32:4; 34:3; 38:18; 38:23; 39:18; 39:18; 41:15; 46:6; 48:6; 48:8; 48:19; 48:19; 51:6; 51:45

Ezekiel

17:15; 17:18; 33:5; 33:5

Daniel

11:41; 12:1

Joel

3:5

Amos

2:14; 2:14; 2:15; 2:15; 9:1; 9:1

Zechariah

2:11; 2:11

Malachi

3:15; 3:15

H4422

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Strong's Number H4422 matches the Hebrew מָלַט (mālaṭ),
which occurs 95 times in 85 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 19:17–Pro 28:26)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he[fn] said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - “Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - “See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - “Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:26 - But Ehud had escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the stone images and escaped to Seirah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And at that time they killed about ten thousand men of Moab, all stout men of valor; not a man escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 - Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:12 - So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:17 - Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:18 - So David fled and escaped, and went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - “And he said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me get away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1 - David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:20 - Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - So David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah and went wherever they could go. Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he halted the expedition.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:3 - And David said to him, “Where have you come from?” So he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:6 - And they came there, all the way into the house, as though to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - Then Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who today have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:9 - Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:12 - “Come, please, let me now give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - “It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:20 - And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, “If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, whoever lets him escape, it shall be his life for the life of the other.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:37 - Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 - And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:15 - “when the Sabeans[fn] raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:19 - “and suddenly a great wind came from across[fn] the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:23 - Or, ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s hand’?
Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of oppressors’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:20 - “Because he knows no quietness in his heart,[fn]
He will not save anything he desires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30 - He will even deliver one who is not innocent;
Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:12 - Because I delivered the poor who cried out,
The fatherless and the one who had no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:19 - Out of his mouth go burning lights;
Sparks of fire shoot out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:5 - They cried to You, and were delivered;
They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:17 - A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48 - What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:20 - He sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them from their destructions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:4 - Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
“O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 - Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;[fn]
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 - Though they join forces,[fn] the wicked will not go unpunished;
But the posterity of the righteous will be delivered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:5 - A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who speaks lies will not escape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:26 - He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.

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