Reference: Pit
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A reservoir, either natural or artificial, for water. Pits were sometimes used as dungeons, Ge 37:20; Jer 38:6; or being slightly covered, and baited, they served as traps to catch wild beasts, a device which illustrates the plots of designing men and women, Ps 119:85; Pr 22:14; 26:27; Eze 19:4. The word pit is also used to denote the grave, Ps 28:1; 30:3,9; and hell, Re 20:1.
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Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams.
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?
The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to thy law.
The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.
He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.
Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in th
The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Easton
a hole in the ground (Ex 21:33-34), a cistern for water (Ge 37:24; Jer 14:3), a vault (Jer 41:9), a grave (Ps 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Ps 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Re 20:1,3). The slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Ge 14:10).
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Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there. And those who remained fled to the mountain.
and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads,
Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain by the side of Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it wi
And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
And he cast him into the abyss, and locked and sealed over him, so that he would no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be loosed for a little time.
Fausets
(1) She'ol, "Hades"; the covered, unseen world. (See HELL.)
(2) Shachath, "sunk and lightly covered [pit]" to entrap animals (Ps 9:16; 35:7); typifying "hopeless doom" (Job 33:18,24,28,30).
(3) Bor, "a pit or cistern once full of water, now empty", with miry clay beneath (Ps 40:2; Zec 9:11); used as dungeon wherein the captive has no water or food; so Jeremiah (Jer 38:6,9), Isa 51:14; hence symbolizing "the dishonored grave of the once haughty transgressor", with the idea of condign [deserved; appropriate] punishment in the unseen world, shadowed forth by the ignominious state of the body (Eze 31:14,16; 32:18,24). (See ABYSS on the "bottomless pit": Re 9:1-2; 20:1-2.)
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He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
The captive exile shall speedily be loosed, and he shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.
Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in th
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon. And he is likely to die in the place where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water. For they are all
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether p
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have bor
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
And the fifth agent sounded, and I saw a star fallen from the sky to the earth. And the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him. And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the pit, like smoke of a burning furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the pit.
And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years.
Hastings
Of the dozen Heb. words, besides two Gr. words in NT, rendered 'pit' in English Version, the following are the most important.
1. The term b
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Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams.
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,
Nevertheless a fountain or a pit in which is a gathering of water shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place. And it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, says LORD.
Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.
But having departed, the man who received the one dug in the ground, and hid his lord's silver.
And he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set up a hedge, and dug a winevat, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.
And having responded, he said to them, Of which of you will a son or an ox fall into a pit, and he will not straightaway lift him out on the day of the Sabbath?
And the fifth agent sounded, and I saw a star fallen from the sky to the earth. And the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him.
Morish
There are several Hebrew words translated 'pit.' The principal are:
1. sheol, 'the grave, hades, hell.' Nu 16:30,33; Job 17:16.
2. shachath, 'a pit, a pitfall to entrap animals,' place of doom and corruption. Job 33:18,24,28,30; Ps 9:15; 30:9; 35:7; Eze 28:8; etc.
3. bor, beer, 'pit or well dug for water,' but which could be used for a dungeon. Ge 37:20-29; Ps 28:1; 40:2; 88:4,6; Eze 26:20; Zec 9:11; etc. See BOTTOMLESS PIT.
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Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams. And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. read more. And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him, and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him. And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he rent his clothes,
But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.
So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
then I will bring thee down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, th
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Smith
Pit.
[HELL]
See Hell