Strong’s H7825 · Hebrew
שְׁחִית
shᵉchîyth · shekh-eeth'
Origin from שָׁחָה (H7812);
Meaning a pit-fall (literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version destruction, pit.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 107:20He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
- Lamentations 4:20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.