Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #139857

OSHB 1 Sam 27:1 הִמָּלֵט (himmālēţ) Strongs=4422 Lemma=‘מָלַט’
contextual word gloss=‘really_(escape)’ word gloss=‘escape’
Morphology=VNc PoS=niphal_verb Type=infinitive_construct
Year=-1058 TimeSeries=Reign_of_Saul

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Only use of identical word form ‘הִמָּלֵט’ (Morphology=VNc PoS=niphal_verb Type=infinitive_construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘הִמָּלֵט’ (Morphology=VNc PoS=niphal_verb Type=infinitive_construct) is always and only glossed as ‘really_(escape)’.

1 SAM 27:1 contextual word gloss=‘really_(escape)’ word gloss=‘escape’ OSHB 1 SAM 27:1 word 15

OET-LV:  and_ Dāvid _he/it _said to his/its_heart now I _will _be _swept _away a _day one by_the _hand _of Shāʼūl there_is_not to_me good if/because really _(escape) I _will _escape to the _land _of the_Fəlishtiy and_he _will _desist from_me Shāʼūl to_seek_me again in_all the _territory _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) and_I _will _be _delivered from_hand _of_his. (SA1_27:1)

OET-RV:  But David thought to himself, “One of these days, I’m going to be caught off-guard by Sha’ul’s actions. There’s no future for me here, so I definitely need to slip away to the Philistines region. Then hopefully Sha’ul will give up looking for me again across all Yisrael, and I’ll slip be able to stay under his radar.” (SA1 27:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מָלַט’’ have 2 different glosses: ‘escape’, ‘really_(escape)’.