מִפְלָט
miphlâṭ · H4655 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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refuge, shelter
A place where humans find shelter
ExamplesPsalm 55:8 “I would hurry to my place of refuge From the stormy wind and heavy gale.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חוּשׁto come swiftly 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מָנוֹס mânôwç · H4498 · flight, escape
- Hebrew noun meaning escape or refuge, used in contexts of fleeing from danger or finding safety, semantically interchangeable with מִפְלָט.
Contrasting words 2 words
- מַלְכֹּדֶת malkôdeth · H4434 · trap
- Hebrew noun meaning trap or snare, the lexical opposite of escape—where escape is freedom from danger, a trap is confinement or capture.
- שְׁבִי shᵉbîy · H7628 · taking captive, carrying off, captive
- Hebrew noun meaning captivity or being taken captive, the direct lexical opposite of escape—captivity is the state one escapes from.
In the other Testament 1 word
- φυγή phygḗ · G5437 · to run away, to flee, flight
- Greek noun denoting the act of fleeing or escaping, a semantic match for the Hebrew noun מִפְלָט in contexts of finding refuge or escaping danger.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Safe002003003019
- מִפְלָט denotes escape, reaching a place of safety.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4655. miphlat מִפְלָט noun [masculine] escape (Hup Bae) or place of escape (We Du); —…
מִפְלָט noun [masculine] escape (Hup Bae) or place of escape (We Du); — Psa 55:9 si vera 1.; ᵐ5 Che מְפַלֵּט deliverer.
מְּלָיָה מְּלִי, see פלא.
פלך (√ of following; compare Arabic II. be round (especially hemispherical), whirl of spindle, so Assyrian pilakku; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; לֶךְ מֶּ ᵑ7 circuit, district; Assyrian also pilku, district).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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