Bible word study

Malat (Strong’s H4422): Meaning in the Bible

Malat (מָלַט) is the Hebrew word numbered H4422 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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. In the King James Bible it is translated deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone.

• Original wordמָלַט
• Transliterationmâlaṭ
• Pronunciationmaw-lat'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH4422
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Malat appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Malat (H4422) stands behind 95 English renderings in 85 verses across 20 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 Samuel (13), Jeremiah (13), Job (11).

How the King James Bible renders Malat, by count

• escaped25 of 95 (26 percent)
• escape19 of 95 (20 percent)
• deliver17 of 95 (18 percent)
• delivered16 of 95 (17 percent)
• out4 of 95 (4 percent)
• save4 of 95 (4 percent)

Three places to read Malat

• 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.
• 2 Chronicles 16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
• Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Malat in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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