Strong H7585שְׁאוֹל
hell: Sheol
- Transliteration
- she'ôl she'ôl
- Pronunciation
- {sheh-ole'} sheh-ole'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
From H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian {retreat }) including its accessories and inmates: - {grave} {hell} pit.
Detailed definition
Sheol, also referred to as the Pit, Gehenna, Tartarus, or Hades, is the biblical concept of the underworld or the abode of the dead, often associated with darkness, stillness, and separation from God.
In the biblical story
Sheol
The underworld; the abode of the dead in the Bible
Sheol, also referred to as the Pit, Gehenna, Tartarus, or Hades, is the biblical concept of the underworld or the abode of the dead, often associated with darkness, stillness, and separation from God.
In the Bible
Strong H7585 appears in 63 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hell31
- grave28
- pit3
- o1
- s1
First verses
- Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
- Genesis 42:38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 44:29And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 44:31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
- Numbers 16:30But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
- Numbers 16:33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- 1 Samuel 2:6The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
- 2 Samuel 22:6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
- 1 Kings 2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
- 1 Kings 2:9Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
- Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
- Job 11:8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- Job 14:13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Job 24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
- Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?