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Lexicon :: Strong's H7845 - šaḥaṯ

Aa
שַׁחַת
Transliteration
šaḥaṯ
Pronunciation
shakh'-ath
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2343.1c,2370d

Strong’s Definitions

שַׁחַת shachath, shakh'-ath; from H7743; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction:—corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H7845 in the following manner: corruption (4x), pit (14x), destruction (2x), ditch (2x), grave (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H7845 in the following manner: corruption (4x), pit (14x), destruction (2x), ditch (2x), grave (1x).

  1. pit, destruction, grave

    1. pit (for catching lions)

    2. pit (of Hell)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שַׁחַת shachath, shakh'-ath; from H7743; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction:—corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
STRONGS H7845: Abbreviations
† שַׁ֫חַת noun feminine pit; — absolute שׁ׳ Psalm 7:16 +; שָׁ֑חַת Psalm 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 פעל שׁ׳ Psalm 7:16; with עשׂה Psalm 9:16; with חפר Psalm 35:7 (trasnp. שׁ׳ to Psalm 35:7b); with ברת Psalm 94:13; Proverbs 26:27; + Psalm 35:8b Syriac Version We (for שׁוֺאֶה); טָבַל בּשׁ׳ Job 9:31.
2. pit of She’ôl, ירר שׁ׳ Job 33:24; ראה (ה)שׁ׳ Psalm 16:10 (|| שִׁאוֺל), Psalm 49:10; לשׁ׳, with הוֺרִיד Ezekiel 28:8, and Psalm 55:24 (לִבְאֵר שׁ׳); קָרֵב Job 33:22; יָמוּת Isaiah 51:14; עָבַר בֵשּׁ׳ Job 33:28; יָרַד אֶלשֿׁ׳ 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 Ezekiel on, בּוֺר 5; also אֲבַדּוֺן, and עִמְקֵי שְׁאוֺל Proverbs 9:18. This distinction of two parts of שְׁאוֺל became important in Jewish and Christian theology).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Job

9:31; 17:14; 33:18; 33:22; 33:24; 33:28; 33:30

Psalms

7:16; 7:16; 9:16; 16:10; 16:10; 30:10; 35:7; 35:7; 35:7; 35:8; 35:8; 49:10; 94:13; 103:4

Proverbs

9:18; 26:27

Isaiah

38:17; 38:17; 51:14

Ezekiel

19:4; 19:4; 19:8; 19:8; 28:8

Jonah

2:7

H7845

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7845 matches the Hebrew שַׁחַת (šaḥaṯ),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31 - Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:14 - If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:18 - To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:22 - And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:28 - He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30 - Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:15 - He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:15 - The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:10 - For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 - What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:7 - For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:9 - So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:13 - So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4 - He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:27 - He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:17 - See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:14 - The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:8 - They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:6 - I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
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