Shachath — H7845

Definition

feminine noun

a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction

1. pit, destruction, grave
1. pit (for catching lions)
2. pit (of Hell)

Usually translated as

pit, corruption, destruction, ditch, grave

Origin

from H7743

• Derived from Shûwach (H7743)

Greek equivalents

• bóthynos (G999)
• thánatos (G2288)
• katharós (G2513)
• rhýpos (G4509)
• phthorá (G5356)

Occurrences

Shachath occurs 23 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (7), Psalms (9), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (3), Jonah (1)

• Job 9:31 — Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch (בַּשַּׁ֣חַת), and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
• Job 17:14 — I have said to corruption (לַשַּׁ֣חַת), 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 (שָׁ֑חַת), and his life from perishing by the sword.
• Job 33:22 — Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave (לַשַּׁ֣חַת), 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 (שָׁ֗חַת): I have found a ransom.
• Job 33:28 — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit (בַּשָּׁ֑חַת), and his life shall see the light.
• Job 33:30 — To bring back his soul from the pit (שָׁ֑חַת), 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 (בְּשַׁ֣חַת) which he made.
• Psalms 9:15 — The heathen are sunk down in the pit (בְּשַׁ֣חַת) 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 (שָֽׁחַת).
• Psalms 30:9 — What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit (שָׁ֥חַת)? 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 (שַׁ֣חַת), which without cause they have digged for my soul.
• Psalms 49:9 — That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption (הַשָּֽׁחַת).
• Psalms 55:23 — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction (שַׁ֗חַת): bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
• Psalms 94:13 — That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit (שָֽׁחַת) be digged for the wicked.
• Psalms 103:4 — Who redeemeth thy life from destruction (מִשַּׁ֣חַת); who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
• Proverbs 26:27 — Whoso diggeth a pit (שַּׁ֭חַת) shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
• Isaiah 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit (מִשַּׁ֣חַת) of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
• Isaiah 51:14 — The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit (לַשַּׁ֔חַת), nor that his bread should fail.
• Ezekiel 19:4 — The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit (בְּשַׁחְתָּ֣ם), and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 19:8 — Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit (בְּשַׁחְתָּ֥ם).
• Ezekiel 28:8 — They shall bring thee down to the pit (לַשַּׁ֖חַת), and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
• Jonah 2:6 — I 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 (מִשַּׁ֛חַת), O LORD my God.