pa.lat describes being brought out of danger or escaping from an enemy, peril, or adverse outcome.

The verb most often concerns rescue or release from hostile people, danger, or oppression, whether as a plea, a promised act, or a description of protection. It also marks those who get away as survivors or escape an impending outcome; in one birth-related clause, the APB presents the negative form as not miscarrying.

1. Rescue or release from danger · dominant

   Piel and Hiphil forms occur in appeals and statements of protection: in Psalm 17:13 the APB renders the request, “deliver my soul from the wicked,” while Psalm 71:4 asks to be delivered from the hand of the wicked. In Psalm 37:40, the two verbal forms stand in the clause that the LORD delivers people from the wicked, and in Psalm 82:4 the plural imperative concerns the poor and needy in the wicked's hand. The participial form in 2 Samuel 22:2 occurs in a statement naming the LORD alongside rock and fortress imagery.

   2 Samuel 22:2Psalm 17:13Psalm 37:40Psalm 71:4Psalm 82:4Psalm 91:14
2. Getting away as survivors or escapees · occasional

   In Ezekiel 7:16, the Qal sequential perfect describes survivors who escape to the mountains and mourn in their iniquity. Job 23:7 uses a Piel cohortative in Job's prospect of escaping forever from his judge, while Micah 6:14 places two Hiphil forms in a warning that what is put away will not escape and that whoever does escape will be given to the sword.

   Ezekiel 7:16Job 23:7Micah 6:14
3. Avoiding miscarriage · rare

   Job 21:10 uses a Piel imperfect with a heifer as its feminine singular subject; the APB presents the paired livestock outcome as, “his heifer calves and does not miscarry.” The verse supports an adverse reproductive outcome being avoided, though the translation does not isolate the verb word-for-word.

   Job 21:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB commonly uses “deliver,” “rescue,” and “escape,” and it describes the Job 21:10 outcome as not miscarrying. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those renderings show the clauses' overall presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.