KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A hole, cavity, cistern, dungeon, trap, or place of confinement. Sense 2: The grave, deep ruin, or a place of judgment.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 37:20
Complete exact-word concordance
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Let not the water flood ouerflow me, neither let the deepe swallow mee vp, and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in darkenesse, in the deepes.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
That thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of aduersitie: vntill the pit be digged for the wicked.
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Heare me speedily, O LORD, my spirit faileth, hide not thy face from mee: lest I be like vnto them that goe downe into the pit.
1611 marginal noteOr, for I am become like. &c.
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
The mouth of strange women is a deepe pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
1611 marginal noteChap. 2.16. and 23.27. and 5.3. and 7.5.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
1611 marginal noteChap.22.14.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Whoso diggeth a pit, shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will returne vpon him.
1611 marginal noteEccles.10.5. psal.17.16. & 9.15.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Who so causeth the righteous to goe astray in an euill way, he shall fall himselfe into his owne pit: but the vpright shall haue good things in possession.
1611 marginal noteChap.26.27.
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