מָלַט (mālaṭ) is a Hebrew verb meaning slip away. It appears 95 times in 20 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4422).

Also rendered

• to escape

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1198)

Root family 1198: מָלַט mālaṭ — be delivered, escape (Niphal); deliver, save (Piel). ASV and RSV similar. bdb “slip away.”

• מֶלֶט meleṭ — mortar

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