# שַׁחַת (shachat)

Israeli respelling: sha-chat. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7845. 23 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shachat-h7845

## Occurrences

- [Job 9:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/31) — Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- [Job 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/14) — I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- [Job 33:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/18) — He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- [Job 33:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/22) — Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- [Job 33:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/24) — Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- [Job 33:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/28) — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- [Job 33:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/30) — To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
- [Psalms 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/15) — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- [Psalms 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/15) — The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- [Psalms 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/16/10) — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- [Psalms 30:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/30/9) — What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- [Psalms 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/7) — For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- [Psalms 49:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/9) — That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
- [Psalms 55:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/23) — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will…
- [Psalms 94:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/13) — That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
- [Psalms 103:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/103/4) — Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
- [Proverbs 26:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/27) — Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
- [Isaiah 38:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/17) — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all…
- [Isaiah 51:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/14) — The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
- [Ezekiel 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/4) — The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
- [Ezekiel 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/8) — Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
- [Ezekiel 28:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/8) — They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
- [Jonah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/2/6) — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruptio…