שַׁחַתshachath

pit

Pronunciation: shakh'-ath · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7845

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 23 times in the Bible.

  • Job 9:31 you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me.
  • Job 17:14 What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
  • Job 33:18 He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.
  • Job 33:22 They are at death’s door; the angels of death wait for them.
  • Job 33:24 he will be gracious and say, ‘Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.’
  • Job 33:28 God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’
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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).