שְׁאוֹלshᵉʼôwl

שְׁאָ֫לָה: see שְׁאוֺל 1 below (Isaiah 7:11)

Pronunciation: sheh-ole' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7585

Meanings

שְׁאוֺל: underworld

1. the underworld (Deuteronomy 32:22; Isaiah 14:9; Proverbs 15:24)

2. condition of righteous and wicked distinguished in ׳ שׁ (1 Samuel 28:1-200)

a. wicked (Psalms 9:18; Psalms 31:18; Psalms 49:15)

b. righteous (Ezekiel 16:10; Ezekiel 16:11; Ezekiel 17:15)

3. later distinction of places in ׳ שׁ

4. figurative (Isaiah 57:9; Hosea 13:14; Isaiah 26:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 66 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 37:35 His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go to my grave mourning for my son,” he would say, and then he would weep.
  • Genesis 42:38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.”
  • Genesis 44:29 Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.’
  • Genesis 44:31 If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be responsible for sending that grieving, white-haired man to his grave.
  • Numbers 16:30 But if the Lord does something entirely new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have shown contempt for the Lord.”
  • Numbers 16:33 So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).