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ᾅδης

Transliteration hadēs		Pronunciation hä'-dās (Key)
Part of Speech proper locative noun		Root Word (Etymology) From ἄλφα (G1) (as negative particle) and εἴδω (G1492)
TDNT Reference 1:146,22	Vines View Entry

1) name Hades or Pluto, the god of the lower regions

2) Orcus, the nether world, the realm of the dead

3) later use of this word: the grave, death, hell

In Biblical Greek it is associated with Orcus, the infernal regions, a dark and dismal place in the very depths of the earth, the common receptacle of disembodied spirits. Usually Hades is just the abode of the wicked, Luk 16:23, Rev 20:13, 14; a very uncomfortable place. (TDNT)

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Strong's Number G86 matches the Greek ᾅδης (hadēs), which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the Greek concordance of the NASB
Page 1 / 1 (Mat 11:23 - Rev 20:14)
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Mat 11:23	And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
Mat 16:18	And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
Luk 10:15	And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.
Luk 16:23	In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
Act 2:27	because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay.
Act 2:31	Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay.
Rev 1:18	I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Rev 6:8	I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Rev 20:13	The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
Rev 20:14	Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.

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