Pit
שׁוּחָהStrong’s H7745shuchah (shu-chah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shuchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pit”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.”
Meaning
- Pit
How it's translated
- a pit 4
- and pit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Proverbs 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 23:27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
- Jeremiah 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּחָה shuchah · pit
pit
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.