Reference: Pit
American
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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And now, come, and we will kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast devoured him: and we shall see what will be his dreams.
To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit
O Jehovah, thou broughtest up my soul from hades: thou didst save me alive from those going down to the pit
What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?
The proud dug pits for me which is not according to thy law.
The mouth of the strange woman a deep pit: and he cursing Jehovah shall fall there.
He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him.
And they will take Jeremiah and send him to the pit of Malchiah son of the king which was in the enclosure of the prison: and they will cast Jeremiah with cords, and in the pit no water but mud: and Jeremiah will sink in the mud.
And the nations will hear concerning him; in their pit he was taken, and they will bring him with hooks to the land of Egypt
And I saw an angel 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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And the valley of Siddim, pit, pit of pitch; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah shall flee and shall fall there; and those having remained shall flee to the mountain.
And they will take him and will throw him into the pit; and the pit empty; water not in it
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: The lord of the pit shall recompense; he shall turn back silver to his lord and the dead shall be to him.
The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it
O Jehovah, thou broughtest up my soul from hades: thou didst save me alive from those going down to the pit
And their great ones sent their small ones to the waters; they came to the wells, they found no water; they turned back their vessels empty; they were ashamed and disgraced, and they covered their head.
And the pit where Ishmael cast there all the corpses of the men whom he struck by the hand of Gedaliah was that which king Asa made from the face of Baasha king of Israel: Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the wounded.
And I saw an angel 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 shut him up, and affixed a seal above him, that he should no more deceive the nations, until the thousand years be finished: and after these things he must be loosed 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 will keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the spear.
And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation.
Redeem my soul from passing into the pit, and my life shall look upon light
To turn back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.
And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.
For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul.
And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.
He being bowed down hastened to be loosed, and he will not die in the pit, and his bread shall not fail.
And they will take Jeremiah and send him to the pit of Malchiah son of the king which was in the enclosure of the prison: and they will cast Jeremiah with cords, and in the pit no water but mud: and Jeremiah will sink in the mud.
My lord the king, these men did evil all which they did to Jeremiah the prophet whom they cast into the pit; and he will die in his low place from the face of hunger, for no more bread in the city.
So that all the trees of the waters shall not be lifted up in height, and they shall not give their foliage between the thick boughs, and all they drinking water shall not stand upon them in their height: for they all were given to death, to the earth underneath, in the midst of the sons of man, to those going down to the pit
From the voice of his fall I caused the nations to tremble, in my causing him to go down to hades with those going down to the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and good of Lebanon, all drinking water and they shall be comforted in the earth underneath.
Son of man, Wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast it down, her, and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth underneath, with those going down to the pit
There Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them wounded, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the earth underneath, who gave their terror in the land of the living; and they will bear their shame with those going down to the pit
Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it
And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the well of the bottomless pit. And he opened the well of the bottomless pit; and a smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the well.
And I saw an angel 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, which is the Devil, and Satan, 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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And now, come, and we will kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast devoured him: and we shall see what will be his dreams.
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass:
But a fountain and pit, a gathering of waters, shall be clean: and he touching upon their carcass shall be unclean.
And the men of Israel saw that a strait to him, for the people were pressed; and the people will hide in caves, and in thorn-bushes, and in rocks, and in towers, and in pits.
And the men of Israel saw that a strait to him, for the people were pressed; and the people will hide in caves, and in thorn-bushes, and in rocks, and in towers, and in pits.
Behold now, he hid in one of the pits, or in one of the places: and it being when there fell among them in the beginning, and he hearing heard and said, was a slaughter among the people which are after Absalom.
And they will take Absalom and cast him in the forest into a great pit, and they will set upon him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled each to his tent.
To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit
We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:
But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, upon thee, thou inhabiters of the earth.
Fear, and the pit and the snare upon thee, thou inhabiting Moab, says Jehovah.
And the nations will hear concerning him; in their pit he was taken, and they will bring him with hooks to the land of Egypt
And the nations will give against him round about from the provinces, and they will spread their net upon him, being taken in their pit
And he having received one, having departed, dug in the earth, and concealed his lord's silver.
And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
And having answered, he said to them, Whose ass or ox of yours shall fall into a well, and will he not quickly pull it out on the sabbath day?
And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the well of the bottomless pit.
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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And now, come, and we will kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast devoured him: and we shall see what will be his dreams. And Reuben will hear, and will take him away out of their hands; and he will say, We will not strike the soul read more. And Reuben will say to them, Ye shall not pour out blood; cast him into this pit which is in the desert, and ye shall not stretch forth the hand upon him; in order to take him away out of their hands to bring him back to his father. And it shall be as Joseph came to his brethren, and they will strip off his tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of the feet which was upon him. And they will take him and will throw him into the pit; and the pit empty; water not in it And they will sit down to eat bread, and they will lift up their eyes, and will see, and behold travellers, Ishmaelites come from Gilead, and their camels bearing perfumes and balsam and myrrh, going to carry down to Egypt And Judah will say to his brethren, What the profit that we shall kill our brother, and conceal his blood? Come, and we will sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hand shall not be upon him; for he our brother, our flesh: and his brethren will hear. And men will pass by, Midianites, merchants; and they will draw and bring up Joseph from the pit, and they will sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty of silver: and they will bring Joseph to Egypt And Reuben turned back to the pit; and behold, Joseph not in the pit: and he rent his garments.
And if Jehovah shall create a creation, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and all which is to them, and they went down living to hades; and ye know that these men rejected Jehovah,
And they went down, and all which is to them, living, to hades, and the earth shall cover over them; and they shall perish from the midst of the gathering.
They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.
He will keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the spear.
And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation.
Redeem my soul from passing into the pit, and my life shall look upon light
To turn back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.
The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it
To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit
What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?
For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul.
And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.
I was reckoned with those going down to the pit: I was as a man of no strength:
Thou didst set me in the pit beneath, in darknesses, in the shades.
And brought thee down with them going down to the pit to the people of old, and I set thee in the earth, underneath in desolations from forever with them going down to the pit, so that thou shalt not be inhabited; and I gave glory in the land of the living,.
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou didst die the deaths of the wounded in the heart of the seas.
Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it
Smith
Pit.
[HELL]
See Hell