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Pit
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
or (1) She'ol , "Hades"; the covered, unseen world. (See HELL.)
(2) Shachath , "sunk and lightly covered [pit]" to entrap animals (Psalms 9:16; Psalms 35:7); typifying "hopeless doom" (Job 33:18; Job 33:24; Job 33:28; Job 33:30).
(3) Βor , "a pit or cistern once full of water, now empty", with miry clay beneath (Psalms 40:2; Zechariah 9:11); used as dungeon wherein the captive has no water or food; so Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:6; Jeremiah 38:9), Isaiah 51:14; hence symbolizing "the dishonored grave of the once haughty transgressor", with the idea of condign [deserved; appropriate] punishment in the unseen world, shadowed forth by the ignominious state of the body (Ezekiel 31:14; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 32:18; Ezekiel 32:24). (See ABYSS on the "bottomless pit": Revelation 9:1-2; Revelation 20:1-2.)
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Pit'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/pit.html. 1949.
