Pit
שְׁחִיתStrong’s H7825shechit (she-chit)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shechit is the Hebrew word usually translated “from pits their” and “pits their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Meaning
- Pit
How it's translated
- from pits their 1
- in pits their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁחִית shechit · 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.