שׁוּחָה
shucha · pit
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7745 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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shucha (שׁוּחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pit”.
A pit, a deep hole; a trap dug in the ground.
How to say it
shu·cha
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
- A hole dug in the ground; a trap.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- pit ×4
- pits ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 22:14
A deep pit is the mouth of strange women; he with whom YHWH is indignant will fall there.
- Proverbs 23:27
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.
- Jeremiah 2:6
And they did not say, ‘Where is YHWH, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of steppe and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land through which no man passed and where no human being lived?’
- Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf, to turn back your fury from them.
- Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.