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Lexicon :: Strong's H7585 - šᵊ'ôl

Aa
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 all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29 - If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:6 - The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:6 - The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:6 - So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9 - A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:8 - They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16 - Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13 - Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:6 - The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5 - For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17 - The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:10 - For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5 - The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:3 - O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:17 - Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:15 - But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 - Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:13 - For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3 - For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48 - What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3 - The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:8 - If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:18 - But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:11 - Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:24 - Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:20 - The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 - Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6 - Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:11 - Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 - The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11 - Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15 - But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

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