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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Escape

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

59exact KJV occurrences 51Old Testament 8New Testament 25books containing the word 14mapped Strong's IDs 54occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 19:17

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Hebrews 12:25

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where Escape appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 65 verses Joshua 11 verses 1 Samuel 21 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 11 verses 2 Kings 33 verses Ezra 11 verses Esther 11 verses Job 11 verses Psalms 44 verses Proverbs 11 verses Ecclesiastes 11 verses Isaiah 33 verses Jeremiah 1413 verses Ezekiel 65 verses Daniel 22 verses Joel 11 verses Obadiah 11 verses Matthew 11 verses Luke 11 verses Acts 11 verses Romans 11 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses 1 Thessalonians 11 verses Hebrews 22 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4422
מָלַט

mâlaṭ · maw-lat'

19 times translated as this KJV form95 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

Strong's KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, × speedily, × surely.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 19:17Strong's last: Daniel 11:41

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GreekG1309
διαφεύγω

diapheúgō · dee-af-yoo'-go

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to flee through, i.e. escape

Strong's KJV usage: :--escape.

Strong's first: Acts 27:42Strong's last: Acts 27:42

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HebrewH6
אָבַד

ʼâbad · aw-bad'

1 times translated as this KJV form184 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)

Strong's KJV usage: break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 11:20Strong's last: Job 11:20

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HebrewH3318
יָצָא

yâtsâʼ · yaw-tsaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1,075 total Strong's occurrences

v

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.

Strong's KJV usage: × after, appear, × assuredly, bear out, × begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, × scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, × still, × surely, take forth (out), at any time, × to (and fro), utter.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Jeremiah 11:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 11:11

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HebrewH5337
נָצַל

nâtsal · naw-tsal'

1 times translated as this KJV form212 total Strong's occurrences

v

to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense

Strong's KJV usage: × at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, × surely, take (out).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Samuel 20:6Strong's last: 2 Samuel 20:6

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HebrewH5674
עָבַר

ʻâbar · aw-bar'

1 times translated as this KJV form562 total Strong's occurrences

v

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)

Strong's KJV usage: alienate, alter, × at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, shave, cause to (make) sound, × speedily, × sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-) faring man, be wrath.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Psalms 141:10Strong's last: Psalms 141:10

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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59 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 19:17
H4422

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Genesis 19:17
H4422

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Genesis 19:19
H4422

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Genesis 19:20
H4422

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

Genesis 19:22
H4422

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Genesis 32:8
H6413

And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

Joshua 8:22
H6412

And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

1 Samuel 27:1
H4422

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

1 Samuel 27:1
H4422

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

2 Samuel 15:14
H6413

And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

2 Samuel 20:6
H5337

And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

1 Kings 18:40
H4422

And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

2 Kings 9:15
H6412

But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:24
H4422

And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.

2 Kings 19:31
H6413

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

Ezra 9:8
H6413

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Esther 4:13
H4422

Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

Job 11:20
H6

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Psalms 55:8
H4655

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

Psalms 56:7
H6405

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

Psalms 71:2
H6403

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Psalms 141:10
H5674

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

Proverbs 19:5
H4422

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Ecclesiastes 7:26
H4422

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Isaiah 20:6
H4422

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

escape

ESCA'PE, verb transitive [Latin capio, with a negative prefix, or from a word of the same family.]

1. To flee from and avoid; to get out of the way; to shun; to obtain security from; to pass without harm; as, to escape danger.

A small number, that escape the sword, shall return. Jeremiah 44:14.

Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4.

2. To pass unobserved; to evade; as, the fact escaped my notice or observation.

3. To avoid the danger of; as, to escape the sea. Acts 28:1.

Note. This verb is properly intransitive, and in strictness should be followed by from; but usage sanctions the omission of it.

ESCA'PE, verb intransitive To flee, shun and be secure from danger; to avoid an evil.

Escape for thy life to the mountains. Genesis 19:17.

1. To be passed without harm. The balls whistled by me, my comrades fell, but I escaped.

ESCA'PE, noun Flight to shun danger or injury; the act of fleeing from danger.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Psalms 55:8.

1. A being passed without receiving injury, as when danger comes near a person, but passes by, and the person is passive. Every soldier who survives a battle has had such an escape

2. Excuse; subterfuge; evasion.

3. In law, an evasion of legal restraint or the custody of the sheriff, without due course of law. Escapes are voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when an officer permits an offender or debtor to quit his custody, without warrant; and involuntary, or negligent, when an arrested person quits the custody of the officer against his will, and is not pursued forthwith and retaken before the pursuer hath lost sight of him.

4. Sally; flight; irregularity. [Little used.]

5. Oversight; mistake. [Little used, or improper.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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