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# שְׁחוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7816

**pit** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7816/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁחוּת: n.f. pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7816/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pit (cf. שַׁ֫חַת from שׁוח);—sf. בִּשְׁחוּתוֹ הוּא יִפּוֹל Pr 28:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his own (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 28:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.10/#tree)

מַשְׁגֶּ֤ה יְשָׁרִ֨ים ׀ בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ רָ֗ע בִּשְׁחוּת֥וֹ הֽוּא־יִפּ֑וֹל וּ֝תְמִימִ֗ים יִנְחֲלוּ־טֽוֹב׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].leads.astray upright.\[people\] in a.way evil in his.own pit he he.will.fall and blameless.\[people\] they.will.inherit good

*JPS 1917:* Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit; but the whole-hearted shall inherit good.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7816/): 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).