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# פַּחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6354

**pit** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6354/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּ֫חַת: n.m. pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6354/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 S 18:17 (in 17:9 read בְּאַחַד) pit;—פ׳ abs. Je 48:13 +, פָּ֑חַת v 28; pl. פְּחָתִים 2 S 17:9;—pit, 2 S 17:9; 18:17; Je 48:28 (Gie qu. text); fig. of calamity פַּחַד וָפ׳ וָפָ֑ח Je 48:43 cf. v 44(×2) = Is 24:17 cf. v 18(×2) and La 3:47.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pit (6); the pit (2); a pit (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 24:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.17/#tree)

פַּ֥חַד וָפַ֖חַת וָפָ֑ח עָלֶ֖יךָ יוֹשֵׁ֥ב הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* dread and pit and snare \[are\].on you O.inhabitant\[s\] of the.earth

*JPS 1917:* Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

[Jeremiah 48:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.43/#tree)

פַּ֥חַד וָפַ֖חַת וָפָ֑ח עָלֶ֛יךָ יוֹשֵׁ֥ב מוֹאָ֖ב נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* terror and pit and snare \[will be\].on.you O.inhabitant of.Moab the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6354.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6354/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).