פַּחַת pachat

Hebrew word for “pit” · Strong’s H6354 · used 10 times in 8 verses

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Meaning

pit, hole

How it is translated

Glosses given for pachat in context, with how often each is used:

• pit 8
• ravines 1
• ravine 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 48 (3), Isaiah 24 (2), 2 Samuel 17 (1), 2 Samuel 18 (1), Lamentations 3 (1)

Forms

• הפחת 5
• ופחת 3
• הפחתים 1
• פחת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pachat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פַּחַד pachad “dread” 5
• פַּח pach “snare” 4
• נוּס nus “to flee” 3
• מוֹאָב moav “Moab” 3
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 3
• אֲבִישָׁלוֹם avishalom “Absalom” 2
• לָכַד lakhad “to capture” 2
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 3
• נְאֻם neum “utterance” 2
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 2

Key verses

The verses using pachat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Samuel 17:9 — Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it…
• 2 Samuel 18:17 — And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
• Isaiah 24:17 — Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
• Isaiah 24:18 — And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be…
• Jeremiah 48:28 — O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.
• Jeremiah 48:43 — Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 48:44 — He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon…
• Lamentations 3:47 — Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.