Genesis 37:20
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
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Pit
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Revelation 20:3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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14 occurrences in 14 verses.
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Genesis
75 verses
Exodus
32 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
22 verses
2 Samuel
33 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
66 verses
Psalms
1414 verses
Proverbs
66 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Isaiah
1110 verses
Jeremiah
76 verses
Ezekiel
1312 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Revelation
97 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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בּוֹר
bôwr · bore
41 times translated as this KJV form67 total Strong's occurrences
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Strong's KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 37:20Strong's last: Zechariah 9:11
Open full H953 profile →שַׁחַת
shachath · shakh'-ath
14 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
Strong's KJV usage: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 33:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 28:8
Open full H7845 profile →פַּחַת
pachath · pakh'-ath
8 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
a pit, especially for catching animals
Strong's KJV usage: hole, pit, snare.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 17:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:44
Open full H6354 profile →φρέαρ
phréar · freh'-ar
5 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison)
Strong's KJV usage: :--well, pit.
Strong's first: Luke 14:5Strong's last: Revelation 9:2
Open full G5421 profile →ἄβυσσος
ábyssos · ab'-us-sos
4 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss"
Strong's KJV usage: :--deep, (bottomless) pit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 9:11Strong's last: Revelation 20:3
Open full G12 profile →בְּאֵר
bᵉʼêr · be-ayr'
3 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
a pit; especially a well
Strong's KJV usage: pit, well.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:23Strong's last: Proverbs 23:27
Open full H875 profile →שְׁאוֹל
shᵉʼôwl · sheh-ole'
3 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
Strong's KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Strong's first: Numbers 16:30Strong's last: Job 17:16
Open full H7585 profile →שׁוּחָה
shûwchâh · shoo-khaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a chasm
Strong's KJV usage: ditch, pit.
Strong's first: Proverbs 22:14Strong's last: Jeremiah 18:22
Open full H7745 profile →βόθυνος
bóthynos · both'-oo-nos
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a hole (in the ground); specially, a cistern
Strong's KJV usage: :--ditch, pit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:11Strong's last: Matthew 12:11
Open full G999 profile →καί
kaí · kahee
1 times translated as this KJV form9,092 total Strong's occurrences
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
Strong's KJV usage: :--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Strong's first: Revelation 17:8Strong's last: Revelation 17:8
Open full G2532 profile →גֶּבֶא
gebeʼ · geh'-beh
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a reservoir; by analogy, a marsh
Strong's KJV usage: marish, pit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 30:14Strong's last: Isaiah 30:14
Open full H1360 profile →גּוּמָּץ
gûwmmâts · goom-mawts'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a pit
Strong's KJV usage: pit.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 10:8Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:8
Open full H1475 profile →שְׁחוּת
shᵉchûwth · shekh-ooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
pit
Strong's KJV usage: pit.
Strong's first: Proverbs 28:10Strong's last: Proverbs 28:10
Open full H7816 profile →שִׁיחָה
shîychâh · shee-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a pit-fall
Strong's KJV usage: pit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 57:6Strong's last: Psalms 57:6
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H7745
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
H7745
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
H953
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
H953
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
H6354
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
H6354
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
H6354
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
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pit
PIT, verb transitive To indent; to press into hollows.
1. To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.
2. To set in competition, as in combat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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