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שְׁחוּת

she.chut

pit

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Strong’s H7816Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

own pit1

In the text

Proverbs 28:10בִּשְׁחוּתוֹ
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שְׁחוּת] n.f. pit;—sf. Pr 28:10.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.