Ecclesiastes 10:8 uses this Aramaic loanword in a proverb about work's inherent dangers: 'He who digs a pit may fall into it.' The saying warns that schemes intended to trap others can ensnare the schemer. The word appears again in Proverbs 26:27 in the Targum and Peshitta, though the Hebrew text there uses a different term. As an Aramaic borrowing in late biblical Hebrew, it illustrates the linguistic influence of Imperial Aramaic on post-exilic Hebrew. The wisdom tradition favored such proverbial warnings about poetic justice.