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# שׁוּחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7745

**pit** — used 5 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/1513/7745/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּחָה: n.f. pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7745/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pit;—abs. שׁ׳ Je 2:6 land of steppe and pits (coll.); fig., כָּרָה שׁ׳ לִי Je 18:20, so v 22 (Qr); עֲמֻקָּה Pr 23:27 deep pit (in fig. of harlot), cf. 22:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.14/#tree)

שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲ֭מֻקָּה פִּ֣י זָר֑וֹת זְע֥וּם יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִפָּל־שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.pit deep \[the\].mouth of.strange.\[women\] \[one.who.is\].cursed of.Yahweh he.will.fall there

*JPS 1917:* The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

[Proverbs 23:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.27/#tree)

כִּֽי־שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲמֻקָּ֣ה זוֹנָ֑ה וּבְאֵ֥ר צָ֝רָ֗ה נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].a.pit deep a.prostitute and.\[is\] a.well narrow a.foreign.\[woman\]

*JPS 1917:* For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7745.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7745/): 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).