Strong's Hebrew · H7845
שַׁחַת
shachath · shakh'-ath
Definitiona pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
Derivationfrom H7743 (שׁוּחַ);
KJV usagecorruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Occurrences23 in the KJV · 23 verses
שַׁחַת in Scripture
Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Job 33:18
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:22
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Job 33:24
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Job 33:28
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job 33:30
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Psalms 7:15
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 9:15
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Psalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
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