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פַּחַת

pachat · pit

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6354 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

pachat (פַּחַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pit”.

Hole; sometimes one dug to trap animals. Also a hollow where someone can hide (2 Samuel 17:9). In the prophets it is an image of a danger with no escape.

How to say it

pa·chat

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A hole for trapping; a danger with no way out.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • pit ×9
  • pits ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • 2 Samuel 17:9

    Look, now he is hidden in one of the pits or in one of the places; and it will be, when some fall among them at the first, that whoever hears will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow after Absalom.’

  • 2 Samuel 18:17

    They took Absalom and threw him into the forest, into the great pit, and they raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled, each to his tents.

  • Isaiah 24:17

    Terror and pit and snare are upon you, inhabitant of the earth!

  • Isaiah 24:18

    And it will happen: the one who flees from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare; for the floodgates on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

  • Jeremiah 48:28

    Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, inhabitants of Moab! And be like the dove that nests on the sides of the mouth of the pit.

  • Jeremiah 48:43

    Terror and pit and snare are upon you, inhabitant of Moab, declares YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 48:44

    The one who flees from before the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the snare; for I will bring upon her, upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares YHWH.

  • Lamentations 3:47

    Terror and pit have come upon us, devastation and shattering.

And 2 more times.