Pit
מִכְרֶהStrong’s H4379mikhreh (mikh-reh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhreh is the Hebrew word usually translated “pit of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.”
Meaning
- Pit, salt pitmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- and a pit of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zephaniah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מִכְרֶה mikhreh · pit
1) pit, salt pit 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIT, verb transitive
To indent; to press into hollows.
- To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.
- To set in competition, as in combat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.