שַׁחַתshachath
pit
Pronunciation: shakh'-ath · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7845
Meanings
1. pit (Ezekiel 19:4; Ezekiel 19:8; Psalms 7:16)
2. pit, of Sh®°ôl (Job 33:24; Psalms 16:10; Psalms 49:10)
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.’
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).