Strong H7845H7845Gשַׁ֫חַת
Pit: hell
One of the 2 senses of Strong H7845
- Transliteration
- shachath
- Pronunciation
- shakh'-ath
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
General definition
From H7743; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively destruction: - {corruption} {destruction} {ditch} {grave} pit.
In the Bible
Strong H7845G appears in 13 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- pit8
- corruption3
- destruction2
First verses
- Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- Job 33:28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
- Psalms 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- Psalms 49:9That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
- Psalms 55:23But 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 103:4Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
- 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.
- Isaiah 51:14The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
- Ezekiel 28:8They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
- Jonah 2:6I 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.