Pit
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 37:20
- Last Reference: Revelation 20:3
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1475 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 4 times
- H6354 Used 8 times
- H7585 Used 3 times
- H7745 Used 3 times
- H7816 Used 1 time
- H7845 Used 13 times
- H7882 Used 1 time
- H8432 Used 1 time
- H875 Used 3 times
- H953 Used 38 times
- G12 Used 5 times
- G5421 Used 5 times
- G999 Used 1 time
A hole in the ground (Exodus 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Genesis 37:24; Jeremiah 14:3), a vault (41:9), a grave (Psalms 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Psalms 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Revelation 20:1, 3). The slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Genesis 14:10).
Benaiah slays a lion in
2 Samuel 23:20
Figurative:
General references
Psalms 7:15-16; Psalms 40:2; Psalms 57:6; Psalms 69:15; Psalms 119:85; Proverbs 23:27; Proverbs 26:27; Proverbs 28:10; Ecclesiastes 10:8; Jeremiah 48:44
Of the bottomless pit
Revelation 9:1-2; Revelation 9:11; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 20:1; Revelation 20:3
[HELL]
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.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 37:20
- Last Reference: Revelation 20:3
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1475 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 4 times
- H6354 Used 8 times
- H7585 Used 3 times
- H7745 Used 3 times
- H7816 Used 1 time
- H7845 Used 13 times
- H7882 Used 1 time
- H8432 Used 1 time
- H875 Used 3 times
- H953 Used 38 times
- G12 Used 5 times
- G5421 Used 5 times
- G999 Used 1 time