Lexical Summary shachath: a pit Original Word: שַׁחַתTransliteration: shachath Phonetic Spelling: (shakh'-ath) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a pit Meaning: a pit, destruction Strong's Concordance corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit From shuwach; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction -- corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit. see HEBREW shuwach Brown-Driver-Briggs H7845. shachath שַׁ֫חַת noun feminine pit; — absolute ׳שׁ Psalm 7:16 +; שָׁ֑חַת 16:10 +; construct שַׁ֫תַת Isaiah 38:17; Psalm 35:7; suffix שַׁחְתָּם Ezekiel 19:4, 8 (+ שַׁחְתֹּה Psalm 35:8b We); — 1 pit, for catching lion (in figurative) Ezekiel 19:4, 8; figurative שׁ ׳פעל Psalm 7:16; with עשׂה 9:16; with חפר 35:7 (trasnp. ׳שׁ to vb); with ברת 94:13; Proverbs 26:27; + Psalm 35:8b ᵑ6 We (for שׁוֺאֶה); בּשׁ ׳טָבַל Job 9:31. 2 pit of Sh®°ôl, שׁ ׳ירר Job 33:24; (ה)שׁ ׳ראה Psalm 16:10 ("" שִׁאוֺל), 49:10; ׳לשׁ, with הוֺרִיד Ezekiel 28:8, and Psalm 55:24 (שׁ ׳לִבְאֵר); קָרֵב Job 33:22; יָמוּת Isaiah 51:14; בֵשּׁ ׳עָבַר Job 33:28; אֶלשֿׁ ׳יָרַד Psalm 30:10; ׳מִשּׁ, with חשׁק Isaiah 38:17 (poem), with חשׂח Job 33:18 (מִנִּיֿ); with העלה Jonah 2:7; with הֵשִׁיב Job 33:30 (מִנִּיֿ); with נאל Psalm 103:4; personified Job 17:14 ("" רִמָּה). — ׳שׁ here either = שְׁאוֺל (hollow place, cavern), or < = pit in שְׁאוֺל (compare, from Ezek. on, בּוֺר 5; also אֲבַדּוֺן, p. 2, and שְׁאוֺל עִמְקֵי Proverbs 9:18. This distinction of two parts of שְׁאוֺל became important in Jewish and Christian theology). |
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