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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Escape
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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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Genesis
65 verses
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11 verses
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21 verses
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22 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
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33 verses
Ezra
11 verses
Esther
11 verses
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11 verses
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44 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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33 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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מָלַט
mâlaṭ · maw-lat'
19 times translated as this KJV form95 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H4422 profile →פָּלִיט
pâlîyṭ · paw-leet'
10 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
a refugee
Strong's KJV usage: (that have) escape(-d, -th), fugitive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 8:22Strong's last: Obadiah 1:14
Open full H6412 profile →פְּלֵיטָה
pᵉlêyṭâh · pel-ay-taw'
9 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
deliverance; concretely, an escaped portion
Strong's KJV usage: deliverance, (that is) escape(-d), remnant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 32:8Strong's last: Joel 2:3
Open full H6413 profile →ἐκφεύγω
ekpheúgō · ek-fyoo'-go
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to flee out
Strong's KJV usage: :--escape, flee.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 21:36Strong's last: Hebrews 2:3
Open full G1628 profile →פָּלַט
pâlaṭ · paw-lat'
2 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to slip out, i.e. escape; causatively, to deliver
Strong's KJV usage: calve, carry away safe, deliver, (cause to) escape.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 71:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 7:16
Open full H6403 profile →פַּלֵּט
pallêṭ · pal-late'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
escape
Strong's KJV usage: deliverance, escape.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 56:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 44:14
Open full H6405 profile →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
Open full G1309 profile →ἔκβασις
ékbasis · ek'-bas-is
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an exit (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--end, way to escape.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 10:13Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 10:13
Open full G1545 profile →φεύγω
pheúgō · fyoo'-go
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to run away (literally or figuratively); by implication, to shun; by analogy, to vanish
Strong's KJV usage: :--escape, flee (away).
Strong's first: Matthew 23:33Strong's last: Matthew 23:33
Open full G5343 profile →אָבַד
ʼâbad · aw-bad'
1 times translated as this KJV form184 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H6 profile →יָצָא
yâtsâʼ · yaw-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1,075 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H3318 profile →מִפְלָט
miphlâṭ · mif-lawt'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an escape
Strong's KJV usage: escape.
Strong's first: Psalms 55:8Strong's last: Psalms 55:8
Open full H4655 profile →נָצַל
nâtsal · naw-tsal'
1 times translated as this KJV form212 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H5337 profile →עָבַר
ʻâbar · aw-bar'
1 times translated as this KJV form562 total Strong's occurrences
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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H3318
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
H6413
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
H4422
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
no direct Strong's tag
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
no direct Strong's tag
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
H6412
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
H6412
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
H6405
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
H6412
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
H4422
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
H4422
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
no direct Strong's tag
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
H6413
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
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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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