שַׁחַת shachat
Hebrew word for “Pit” · Strong’s H7845 · used 23 times in 23 verses
Meaning
Pit, of hell; Another name of she.ol (שְׁאוֹל "Sheol" H7585); This name means pit, grave
Senses in the lexicon
- Pit: hell (13)
- pit: grave (10)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shachat in context, with how often each is used:
- pit 23
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Job 33 (5), Ezekiel 19 (2), Job 9 (1), Job 17 (1), Psalms 7 (1), Psalms 9 (1), Psalms 16 (1), Psalms 30 (1), Psalms 35 (1), Psalms 49 (1)
Forms
- שׁחת 9
- בשׁחת 4
- לשׁחת 4
- משׁחת 3
- בשׁחתם 2
- השׁחת 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shachat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 7
- חַי chay “alive” 6
- כָּרָה karah “to pierce” 3
- יָרַד yarad “to go down” 5
- רֶשֶׁת reshet “net” 3
- חָפַר chaphar “to search” 2
- טָמַן taman “to hide” 2
- תָּפַשׂ taphas “to capture” 2
- גּוֹי goy “nation” 3
- אוֹר or “light” 2
- מוּת mut “to die” 3
- אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 3
Key verses
The verses using shachat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 17:14 — I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- Job 33:24 — Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- Job 33:28 — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- Psalms 7:15 — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- Psalms 9:15 — The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- Psalms 16:10 — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Psalms 30:9 — What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- Psalms 35:7 — For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- Psalms 55:23 — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 103:4 — Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
- Isaiah 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy…
- Jonah 2:6 — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
See all 23 verses in the Word Atlas
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.