Pit
שְׁחוּתStrong’s H7816shechut (she-chut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shechut is the Hebrew word usually translated “own pit his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.”
Meaning
- Pit
How it's translated
- in own pit his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁחוּת shechut · 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.