Words the Bible translates as survivor
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- peletahפְּלֵיטָהgetting out of a disaster alive: both the escape itself and the people who come through it
- saridשָׂרִידa survivor: the one left alive, or the little left over, after everyone and everything else has been destroyed.
- palitפָּלִיטa survivor: someone who has escaped a deadly danger and gotten away alive
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