Pit:
a hole in the ground (Exd 21:33,34), a cistern for water (Gen 37:24; Jer 14:3), a vault (41:9), a grave (Psa 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Psa 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Rev 20:1,3). The slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Gen 14:10).
Pit:
The word translates different Hebrew words of which the most important are:
(1) bor, "pit" or "cistern," made by digging, (Ge 37:20); hence, "dungeon" (Jer 38:6, margin "pit");
(2) be'er, "pit" or "well" made by digging (Ge 21:25);
(3) she'ol, generally rendered "hell" in the King James Version (see HELL);
(4) shachath, a pit in the ground to catch wild animals. (1), (2) and (4) above are used metaphorically of the pit of the "grave" or of "sheol" (Ps 28:1; 30:3; Job 33:24). the King James Version sometimes incorrectly renders (4) by "corruption."
(5) pachath, "pit," literally (2Sa 17:9), and figuratively (Jer 48:43).
In the New Testament "pit" renders bothunos (Mt 15:14), which means any kind of hole in the ground. In the corresponding passage Lu (14:5 the King James Version) has phrear, "well," the same as (2) above. For "bottomless pit" (Re 9:1, the King James Version, etc.).
Written by Thomas Lewis
See ABYSS
1 | Strong's Number: g5421 | Greek: phrear |
Pit:
"a well, dug for water" (distinct from pege, "a fountain"), denotes "a pit" in Rev 9:1, 2, RV, "the pit (of the abyss)," "the pit," i.e., the shaft leading down to the abyss, AV, "(bottomless) pit;" in Luk 14:6, RV, "well" (AV, "pit"); in Jhn 4:11, 12, "well."
See WELL.
2 | Strong's Number: g999 | Greek: bothunos |
3 | Strong's Number: g12 | Greek: abussos |
Pit:
See BOTTOMLESS, B.
4 | Strong's Number: g5276 | Greek: hupolenion |
Pit:
SEE [HELL].
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