Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6354
פַּחַת
pachathpakh'-ath
pit
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6354is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6354
a pit, especially forcatching animals
The King James renders it: hole, pit, snare.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pachath is rendered "pit". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 17:9Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
2 Samuel 17:9הַפְּחָתִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's ten uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the pit5
- and pit2
- a ravine1
- and a pit1
- the ravines1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַפַּ֔חַת4
- וָפַ֖חַת2
- הַפַּ֣חַת1
- הַפְּחָתִ֔ים1
- וָפַ֛חַת1
- פָֽחַת׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
2 Samuel
two uses
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
- הַפְּחָתִ֔יםhapechatimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the ravines
They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.
- הַפַּ֣חַתhapachatthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit
Isaiah
three uses
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
- וָפַ֖חַתvafachatconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pit
Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- הַפַּ֔חַתhapachatthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit
- הַפַּ֔חַתhapachatthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit
Jeremiah
four uses
Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- פָֽחַת׃fachatnoun · masculine singulartagged: a ravine
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
- וָפַ֖חַתvafachatconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pit
“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
- הַפַּ֔חַתhapachatthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit
- הַפַּ֔חַתhapachatthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit
Lamentations
one use
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
- וָפַ֛חַתvafachatconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a pit
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.