Limitless Word
שַׁחַתshachath/shakh'-ath/
HebrewH784523 occurrences (KJV)

a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction

KJV renders it: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.

Where it appears

  • Job 9:31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
  • Job 33:18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
  • Job 33:22Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
  • Job 33:24then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
  • Job 33:28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’
  • Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
  • Ps 7:15He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
  • Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
  • Ps 16:10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
  • Ps 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
  • Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
  • Ps 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
  • Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
  • Ps 94:13that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
  • Ps 103:4who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
  • Prov 26:27Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
  • Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
  • Isa 51:14The captive exile will speedily be freed; and he will not die and go down into the pit, and his bread will not fail.
  • Ezek 19:4The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 19:8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.
  • Ezek 28:8They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
  • Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.