Topic
Pit
34 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 30:3Easton · ISBE
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- Revelation 9:1ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
- Revelation 20:1Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
- Revelation 20:3Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
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.
- Genesis 14:10Easton
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
- Genesis 21:25ISBE
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Genesis 37:20ISBE
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.
- Genesis 37:24Easton
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
- Exodus 21:33Easton
¶ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
- Exodus 21:34Easton
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
- 2 Samuel 17:9ISBE
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 23:20Nave Benaiah kills a lion in
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
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- Job 33:24 ISBE
- Psalms 7:15 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 7:16 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 9:15 Easton
- Psalms 28:1 ISBE
- Psalms 40:2 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 57:6 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 69:15 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 119:85 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Proverbs 23:27 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Proverbs 26:27 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Proverbs 28:10 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Jeremiah 14:3 Easton
- Jeremiah 38:6 ISBE
- Jeremiah 48:43 ISBE
- Jeremiah 48:44 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Matthew 15:14 ISBE
- Revelation 9:2 Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
- Revelation 9:11 Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
- Revelation 11:7 Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
- Revelation 17:8 Nave FIGURATIVE — The bottomless pit
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 10 references
A hole in the ground (Ex. 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Gen. 37:24; Jer. 14:3), a vault (41:9), a grave (Ps. 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Ps. 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Rev. 20:1, 3). The slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Gen. 14:10).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
The word translates different Hebrew words of which the most important are:
(1) bor, "pit" or "cistern," made by digging, (Ge 37:20); hence, "dungeon" (Jer 38:6, margin "pit");
(2) be'er, "pit" or "well" made by digging (Ge 21:25);
(3) she'ol, generally rendered "hell" in the King James Version (see HELL);
(4) shachath, a pit in the ground to catch wild animals. (1), (2) and (4) above are used metaphorically of the pit of the "grave" or of "sheol" (Ps 28:1; 30:3; Job 33:24). the King James Version sometimes incorrectly renders (4) by "corruption."
(5) pachath, "pit," literally (2Sa 17:9), and figuratively (Jer 48:43).
In the New Testament "pit" renders bothunos (Mt 15:14), which means any kind of hole in the ground. In the corresponding passage Lu (14:5 the King James Version) has phrear, "well," the same as (2) above. For "bottomless pit" (Re 9:1, the King James Version, etc.).
See ABYSS.
T. Lewis
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.