H7845 שַׁחַת
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 23 KJV occurrences
שַׁחַת
shachath · shakh'-ath
Definition
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
KJV Renderings
corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Derivation / Etymology
from H7743 (שׁוּחַ);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 23)
- Job 9:31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 33:28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- Psalms 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- Psalms 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- Psalms 94:13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
- Isaiah 38:17Behold, 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 back.
- Ezekiel 19:8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.