Strong's #6354: pachath (pronounced pakh'-ath)

probably from an unused root apparently meaning to dig; a pit, especially for catching animals:--hole, pit, snare.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pachath

1) pit, hole

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: probably from an unused root apparently meaning to dig

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

2 Samuel 17:9: "is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass,"
2 Samuel 18:17: "and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great"
Isaiah 24:17: "Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth."
Isaiah 24:18: "from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst"
Isaiah 24:18: "into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare:"
Jeremiah 48:28: "like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth."
Jeremiah 48:43: "Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 48:44: "from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit"
Jeremiah 48:44: "into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for"
Lamentations 3:47: "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."