Strong's Hebrew · H6354
פַּחַת
pachath · pakh'-ath
Definitiona pit, especially forcatching animals
Derivationprobably from an unused root apparently meaning to dig;
KJV usagehole, pit, snare.
Occurrences10 in the KJV · 8 verses
פַּחַת in Scripture
2 Samuel 17:9
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
Isaiah 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Jeremiah 48:28
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole' s mouth.
Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:44
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.