The name Elpelet (also spelled Eliphelet) combines El (God) and pelet (deliverance, escape), meaning "God is deliverance" or "My God is escape." It appears in 1 Chronicles 14:5 as one of the sons born to David in Jerusalem, listed among the royal family.
The name given to a son of David — the king who himself was delivered from Saul, from Goliath, from Absalom — is a doxology. "God is my deliverance" was not just a hope but a lived experience in David's household. The theological root pelet appears in the Psalms repeatedly: "He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge and my savior" (2 Samuel 22:3). Every deliverance in the Old Testament points toward the ultimate Deliverer.