פַּחַתpachath
pit (2 Samuel 18:17; 2 Samuel 17:9; Jeremiah 48:43; Jeremiah 48:28; Jeremiah 48:44)
Pronunciation: pakh'-ath · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6354
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 17:9 He has probably already hidden in some pit or cave. And when he comes out and attacks and a few of your men fall, there will be panic among your troops, and the word will spread that Absalom’s men are being slaughtered.
- 2 Samuel 18:17 They threw Absalom’s body into a deep pit in the forest and piled a great heap of stones over it. And all Israel fled to their homes.
- Isaiah 24:17 Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, you people of the earth.
- Isaiah 24:18 Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap, and those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare. Destruction falls like rain from the heavens; the foundations of the earth shake.
- Jeremiah 48:28 “You people of Moab, flee from your towns and live in the caves. Hide like doves that nest in the clefts of the rocks.
- Jeremiah 48:43 “Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, O Moab,” says the Lord.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).