# H7845 שַׁחַת

שַׁחַת (shachath), Strong’s H7845: a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction KJV: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.. Occurs 23 times.

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*shachath* — a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction

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

Derived from [שׁוּחַ shûwach](https://besorah.bible/word/H7743) (to sink, literally or figuratively)

Occurs 23 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שַׁ֫חַת n.f. pit

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 38:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/38?v=17) — Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for…
- [Isaiah 51:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=14) — The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.
- [Ezekiel 19:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/19?v=4) — The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
- [Ezekiel 19:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/19?v=8) — Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their…
- [Ezekiel 28:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/28?v=8) — They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
- [Jonah 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/2?v=7) — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the…
- [Psalms 7:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/7?v=16) — He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
- [Psalms 9:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/9?v=16) — The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
- [Psalms 16:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/16?v=10) — For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
- [Psalms 30:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/30?v=10) — “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your…