Pit
פַּ֫חַתStrong’s H6354pachat (pa-chat)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “pit”, “ravines” and “ravine”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.”
Meaning
- Pit, hole
How it's translated
- the pit 5
- and pit 2
- the ravines 1
- a ravine 1
- and a pit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 2
- Lamentations 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 18:17And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
- Isaiah 24:17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Isaiah 24:18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
- Jeremiah 48:28O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.
- Jeremiah 48:43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 48:44He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
פַּ֫חַת pachat · pit
pit, hole
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.