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Lexicon :: Strong's H7585 - šᵊ'ôl

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שְׁאוֹל
Transliteration
šᵊ'ôl
Pronunciation
sheh-ole'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2303c

Strong’s Definitions

שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl, sheh-ole'; or שְׁאֹל shᵉʼôl; from H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates:—grave, hell, pit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x

The KJV translates Strong's H7585 in the following manner: grave (31x), hell (31x), pit (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x
The KJV translates Strong's H7585 in the following manner: grave (31x), hell (31x), pit (3x).

  1. sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit

    1. the underworld

    2. Sheol - the OT designation for the abode of the dead

      1. place of no return

      2. without praise of God

      3. wicked sent there for punishment

      4. righteous not abandoned to it

      5. of the place of exile (fig)

      6. of extreme degradation in sin

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl, sheh-ole'; or שְׁאֹל shᵉʼôl; from H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates:—grave, hell, pit.
STRONGS H7585: Abbreviations
† שְׁאוֺל, שְׁאֹל noun femininePsalm 86:13 (apparently masculine Job 26:6 compare Isaiah 14:9, see AlbrZAW xvi(1896), 51) She’ôl, underworld (√ dubious; שׁאל, i.e. palce of inquiry (reference to necromancy) JastrAmos. Jsem. Lang. xiv. 170. cf JBL xix (1900), 88 ff. (JeremiasLebenn. d. Tode 109 'Ort der Entscheidung'); Thes BöDe Inf. § 158 Di and others compare √ שׁעל, whence שֹׁעַל hallow hand, etc.; שׁ׳ then = hallow place, 'Hölle', hell; other conjectures see HupPsalm 6:6 DeIsaiah 5:14 BeerBibl. Hades in HoltzmannFestgabe, 1902, 15; most now refrain from positive etymology (e.g. Buhl); Old Aramaic שאול, Syriac bdb098201; Assyrian šu-alu is dubious: so reads and interprets DlPa 121, Prol. 47. 145 JastrAmos. J. Semitic Lang. xiv. 165 ff. Ency. Bibs.v.; opposed to by BertinTSBA viii. 269 JenKosmol. 223 ff. ZimKAT 3. 636 and others; see also Muss-ArnoltJBL xi (1892), 169 and references); — always absolute, שְׁאוֺל Deuteronomy 32:22 + 52 times,הָ֯ Genesis 42:38; Psalm 9:18; שְׁאֹל 1 Kings 2:6; Job 17:16, הָ֯ Genesis 37:35 +7 times; + Isaiah 7:11 (so read for שְׁאָ֫לָה Aq Σ Θ Du Che and now most); —
1. the underworld, תַּחְתִּית שׁ׳ Deuteronomy 32:22, מִתַּחַת Isaiah 14:9; מִ֑טָּה מִשּׁ׳ Proverbs 15:24; || מָוֶת Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 7:27; Songs 8:6; Psalm 89:49; whither men descend at death, Genesis 37:35 (E), Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:29, 31 (J), 1 Samuel 2:6; 1 Kings 2:6, 9; Job 7:9; Job 21:13; Isaiah 14:11, 15; Psalm 88:4, and Korah and associates go down alive by י׳'s judgment, Numbers 16:30, 33 (J), compare Psalm 55:16; under mountains and sea Job 26:6 (compare Job 26:5), בֶּטֶן שׁ׳ Jonah 2:3 (compare Jonah 2:7); with bars Job 17:16 (si vera lectio: see Greek Version of the LXX Du); שׁ׳ פִּי Psalm 141:7; שַׁעֲרֵי שׁ׳ Isaiah 38:10; personified Isaiah 28:15, 18 (|| מות). as insatiable monster Isaiah 5:14; Habakkuk 2:5; Proverbs 1:12; Proverbs 27:20; Proverbs 30:16; as said (figurative) to have snares, חֶבְלֵי שׁ׳ Psalm 18:6 = 2 Samuel 22:6 compare מְצָרֵי שׁ׳ Psalm 116:3; opposed to (height of) שָׁמַיִם Amos 9:2; Job 11:8; Psalm 139:8 + (opposed to לְמָ֑עְלָה) Isaiah 7:11 (see above); dark, gloomy, without return Job 17:13 (compare Job 17:16; Job 7:9; Job 10:21; Job 16:22; all being alike Job 3:17-19; Job 21:23-26); without work or knowledge or wisdom according to Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 (compare Job 14:21, and see רְפָאִים below רפה; yet compare Isaiah 14:9f.).
2. condition of righteous and wicked distinguished in שׁ׳ (later than 1 Samuel 28, especially in Wisdom Literature):
a. wicked יָשׁוּבוּ לִשְׁא֑וֺלָה Psalm 9:18, יִדְּמוּ לִשׁ׳ Psalm 31:18; death is their shepherd, without power and honour they waste away Psalm 49:15 (twice in verse); שׁ׳ consumes them as drought water Job 24:19; righteous dread it because no praise or presence of God there (as in temple) Psalm 6:6 (compare Psalm 88:5), Isaiah 38:18; deliverance from it a blessing Psalm 30:4; Psalm 86:13; Proverbs 23:14. In Ezek. שׁ׳ is land below, place of reproach, abode of uncircumcised Ezekiel 31:15, 16, 17; Ezekiel 32:21, 27
b. righteous shall not be abandoned, לשׁ׳ Ezekiel 16:10 (|| שַׁחַת which see; opposed to אִרַח חַיִּים etc., Ezekiel 16:11, compare Ezekiel 17:15), is ransomed from שׁ׳ Ezek 49:16 (compare Ezek 73:23; Ezek 73:25; Isaiah 57:1, 2); compare Job's expectation and desire Job 14:13; Job 17:13 (compare Job 10:21; Job 19:25f.).
3. later distinction of places in שׁ׳ :
a. depths of שׁ׳ for sensualist Proverbs 9:18.
b. וַאֲבַדּוֺן שׁ׳ Proverbs 25:11, see אֲבַדּוֺן. [שַׁחַת and בּוֺר, which see, when || שׁ׳, are usually in bad sense (Psalm 88:4); probably = pit in שׁ׳, > שׁ׳ itself as pit; words at least prepare for local distinctions of post-Biblical Judaism and NT.]
4. שׁ׳ figurative of extreme degradation in sin Isaiah 57:9; as place of exile for Israel Hosea 13:14 (twice in verse) (compare Isaiah 26:19).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

37:35; 37:35; 42:38; 42:38; 44:29; 44:31

Numbers

16:30; 16:33

Deuteronomy

32:22; 32:22

1 Samuel

2:6; 28

2 Samuel

22:6

1 Kings

2:6; 2:6; 2:9

Job

3:17; 3:18; 3:19; 7:9; 7:9; 10:21; 10:21; 11:8; 14:13; 14:21; 16:22; 17:13; 17:13; 17:16; 17:16; 17:16; 19:25; 21:13; 21:23; 21:24; 21:25; 21:26; 24:19; 26:5; 26:6; 26:6

Psalms

6:6; 6:6; 9:18; 9:18; 18:6; 30:4; 31:18; 49:15; 55:16; 86:13; 86:13; 88:4; 88:4; 88:5; 89:49; 116:3; 139:8; 141:7

Proverbs

1:12; 5:5; 7:27; 9:18; 15:24; 23:14; 25:11; 27:20; 30:16

Ecclesiastes

9:5; 9:6; 9:10

Song of Songs

8:6

Isaiah

5:14; 5:14; 7:11; 7:11; 14:9; 14:9; 14:9; 14:11; 14:15; 26:19; 28:15; 28:18; 38:10; 38:18; 57:1; 57:2; 57:9

Ezekiel

16:10; 16:11; 17:15; 31:15; 31:16; 31:17; 32:21; 32:27

Hosea

13:14

Amos

9:2

Jonah

2:3; 2:7

Habakkuk

2:5

H7585

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Strong's Number H7585 matches the Hebrew שְׁאוֹל (šᵊ'ôl),
which occurs 66 times in 64 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 37:35–Isa 14:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and suppose it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which ye go, then ye shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29 - If then ye take this one also from my presence, and an affliction happen to him by the way, then shall ye bring down my old age with sorrow to [fn]the grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - it shall even come to pass, when he sees the boy is not with us, that he will die, and thy servants will bring down the old age of thy servant, and our father, with sorrow to the grave.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - But if the Lord shall shew by a [fn]wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:6 - The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:6 - the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:6 - Therefore thou shalt deal with him according to thy wisdom, and thou shalt not bring down his grey hairs in peace to [fn]the grave.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - But thou shalt by no means hold him guiltless, for thou art a wise man, and wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9 - I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:8 - Heaven is high; and what wilt thou do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou know?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16 - Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13 - And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:6 - Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5 - (LXX 6:6) For in death no man remembers thee: and who will give thee thanks in Hades?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17 - (LXX 9:18) Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:10 - (LXX 15:10) because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5 - (LXX 17:6) The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:3 - (LXX 29:4) O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades, thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:17 - (LXX 30:18) O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - (LXX 48:15) They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:15 - (LXX 48:16) But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 - (LXX 54:16) Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:13 - (LXX 85:13) For thy mercy is great toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3 - (LXX 87:4) For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48 - (LXX 88:49) What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3 - (LXX 114:3) The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:8 - (LXX 138:8) If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - (LXX 140:7) As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is the [fn]way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:18 - But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:11 - Hell and destruction are manifest to the Lord; how shall not also be the hearts of men?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:24 - The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:20 - Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 - Whatsoever thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades whither thou goest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6 - Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, even the flames thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - Therefore [fn]hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:11 - Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 - Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11 - Thy glory has come down to Hades, and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15 - But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.

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