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title: שַׁחַת — pit · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׁחַת (7845), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 23 times: pit. BDB 1906: n.f. pit. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׁחַת

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«שַׁחַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pit** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 23 times · **Key:** 7845 · **BDB:** שַׁ֫חַת

### Glosses

pit (13); \[the\].pit (5); a.pit (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7845/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. pit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7845/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pit;—abs. שׁ׳ ψ 7:16 +; שָׁ֑חַת 16:10 +; cstr. שַׁ֫חַת Is 38:17 ψ 35:7; sf. שַׁחְתָּם Ez 19:4, 8 (+ שַׁחְתֹּה ψ 35:8b We);— pit, for catching lion (in fig.) Ez 19:4, 8; fig. פעל שׁ׳ ψ 7:16; c. עשׂה 9:16; c. חפר 35:7 (transp. שׁ׳ to v b); c. כרה 94:13 Pr 26:27; + ψ 35:8b 𝔖 We (for שׁוֹאָה); טָבַל בּשׁ׳ Jb 9:31. pit of She’ôl, ירד שׁ׳ Jb 33:24; ראה (ה)שׁ׳ ψ 16:10 (‖ שְׁאוֹל), 49:10; לשׁ׳, c. הוֹרִיד Ez 28:8, and ψ 55:24 (לִבְאֵר שׁ׳); קָרֵב Jb 33:22; יָמוּת Is 51:14; עָבַר בַּשּׁ׳ Jb 33:28; יָרַד אֶל־שׁ׳ ψ 30:10; מִשּׁ׳, c. חשׁק Is 38:17 (poem), c. חְשׂךְ Jb 33:18 (מִנִּי־); c. העלה Jon 2:7; c. הֵשִׁיב Jb 33:30 (מִנִּי־); c. גאל ψ 103:4; personif. Jb 17:14 (‖ רִמָּה).—שׁ׳ here either = שְׁאוֹל (hollow place, cavern), or שְׁאוֹל (cf., from Ezek. on, בּוֹר 5; also אֲבַדּוֹן, p. 2, and עִמְקֵי שְׁאוֹל Pr 9:18. This distinction of two parts of שְׁאוֹל became important in Jewish and Christian theology).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׁחַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7845/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 49:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.10/)

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וִֽיחִי־ע֥וֹד לָנֶ֑צַח לֹ֖א יִרְאֶ֣ה הַשָּֽׁחַת׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.live still to perpetuity not he.will.see the pit

*JPS 1917:* That he should still live alway, that he should not see the pit.

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[Psalms 7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.16/)

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בּ֣וֹר כָּ֭רָֽה וַֽיַּחְפְּרֵ֑הוּ וַ֝יִּפֹּ֗ל בְּשַׁ֣חַת יִפְעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* a.pit he.digs and he has.dug.it and he.has.fallen in.\[the\] pit \[which\].he.made

*JPS 1917:* He hath digged a pit, and hollowed it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

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