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Strong’s Hebrew

H7845 — shachath

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

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שַׁחַת

shachath — pronounced shakh'-ath

from 7743; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction:--corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit. see H07743

23 occurrences in the KJV.

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.

Psalms 49:9

That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

Psalms 55:23

But 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 94:13

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Psalms 103:4

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Proverbs 26:27

Whoso diggeth a pit 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 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, nor that his bread should fail.

Ezekiel 19:4

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, 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.

Ezekiel 28:8

They 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 2:6

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, O LORD my God.

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