shachat · pit, destruction

What it means

shachat (שַׁחַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pit, destruction”.

A pit, a hole, sometimes one dug as a trap; figuratively, the grave or destruction.

How to say it

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 dug hole, sometimes a trap.
2. The grave, from which God rescues.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×7
• Psalms×9
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Jonah×1

• Job 9:31

  then you would plunge me into the pit, and my clothes would abhor me.

• Job 17:14

  to the pit I call, ‘You are my father’; ‘My mother and my sister,’ to the worms;

• Job 33:18

  he holds back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing by the dart.

• Job 33:22

  And his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to those who bring death.

• Job 33:24

  then he shows him favor and says, ‘Rescue him from going down to the pit; I have found compensation,’

• Job 33:28

  He has rescued his soul from passing into the pit, and his life will see the light.

• Job 33:30

  to bring back his soul from the pit, to light him up with the light of the living.

• Psalms 7:15

  He dug a pit and hollowed it out, and fell into the pit that he made.

• Psalms 9:15

  The nations have sunk into the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their foot has been caught.

• Psalms 16:10

  For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not let your faithful one see the pit.

• Psalms 30:9

  What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? Will the dust give you thanks? Will it declare your truth?

• Psalms 35:7

  For without cause they hid for me the pit of their net; without cause they dug it for my soul.

• Psalms 49:9

  that he should live on forever and not see the pit.

• Psalms 55:23

  But you, Elohim, will bring them down to the well of the pit; men of blood and deceit will not reach half their days; but I will trust in you.

• Psalms 94:13

  to give him calm from the days of evil, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

• Psalms 103:4

  who redeems from the pit your life, who crowns you with loyal love and compassion,

• Proverbs 26:27

  Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone, on him it will come back.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Look, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you have loved my soul out of the pit of nothingness, for you have cast behind your back all my sins.

• Isaiah 51:14

  Soon the one bowed down will be set free, and he will not die going down to the pit, nor will his bread be lacking.

• Ezekiel 19:4

  And the nations heard of him; in their pit he was caught, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 19:8

  And the nations set against him from the provinces all around, and spread over him their net; in their pit he was caught.

• Ezekiel 28:8

  To the pit they will bring you down, and you will die the deaths of the mortally wounded in the heart of the seas.

• Jonah 2:6

  To the roots of the mountains I went down; the earth, its bars closed behind me forever; but you brought up my life from the pit, YHWH my Elohim.