שְׁחִית
shᵉchîyth · H7825 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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pits
World of the dead, described as pits deep in the ground
ExamplesPsalm 107:20 He sent His word and healed them, And saved them from their destruction.
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Pit
A hollow area in the ground created by digging and used by hunters to trap animals, associated with danger
ExamplesLamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’S anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, “In his shadow We shall live among the nations.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 2
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- שִׁיחָה shîychâh · H7882 · pit
- Both center on the sense of "pit" as a concrete feature or trap, and can refer to the same thing.
- שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl · H7585 · world of the dead
- Both refer to the pit or grave, the subterranean region of death and destruction.
- בּוֹר bôwr · H953 · pit, cistern, dungeon
- Both overlap in the sense of "pit." בּוֹר (bôwr, H953) also has the broader senses of cistern and well.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Regions Under the Earth001003
- The word can name the grave or the realm of death, as in Psalm 107:20's "saved them from their destruction" — deliverance from that fate.
- Traps001003001001018
- The word can also name a literal pit used to capture, as in Lamentations 4:20's "the LORD's anointed was captured in their pits" — a trap for the unwary.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7825. shechith [שְׁחִית] noun feminine id.; — plural suffix בִּשְׁתִיתוֺתָם נִלְכַּד Lam…
[שְׁחִית] noun feminine id.; — plural suffix בִּשְׁתִיתוֺתָם נִלְכַּד Lam 4:20, מִשּׁ ׳וִימַלֵּט Psa 107:20.
שׁחוֺר see שִׁיחוֺר. שְׁחוֺר see I. שׁחר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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