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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Pit
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(1) She'ol, "Hades"; the covered, unseen world. (See HELL.)
(2) Shachath, "sunk and lightly covered [pit]" to entrap animals (; ); typifying "hopeless doom" (; ; ; ).
(3) Bor, "a pit or cistern once full of water, now empty", with miry clay beneath (; ); used as dungeon wherein the captive has no water or food; so Jeremiah (; ), ; 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 (; ; ; ). (See ABYSS on the "bottomless pit": -2; -2.)