Pit
שִׁיחָהStrong’s H7882shichah (shi-chah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shichah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pit” and “pits”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.”
Meaning
- Pit
How it's translated
- a pit 1
- pits 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁיחָה shichah · 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.