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Pit used for water, but sometimes dry and used as a prison. Joseph called his prison a dungeon, though perhaps it was not a pit. Gen. 40: 15; Gen. 41: 14. Jeremiah was put into a pit, and he sank in the mire. Jer. 38: 6-13; Lam. 3: 53, 55.