Pit
שַׁ֫חַתStrong’s H7845shachat (sha-chat)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “pit”, “pit their” and “pit of”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.”
Meaning
- Pit, of hell
- Pit, destruction, gravepit (for catching lions)
How it's translated
- pit 6
- to the pit 4
- in pit 3
- a pit 2
- in pit their 2
- in the pit 1
- pit of 1
- the pit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 9
- Job 7
- Ezekiel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Proverbs 1
- Jonah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 33:22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- Job 33:28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫חַת shachat · Pit
Pit, of hell Another name of she.ol (שְׁאוֹל "Sheol" H7585) This name means pit, grave
שַׁ֫חַת shachat · pit
1) pit, destruction, grave 1a) pit (for catching lions)
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.