sheol · Sheol

What it means

sheol (שְׁאוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Sheol”.

In the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Sheol ×65
• request ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Job×8
• Psalms×16
• Proverbs×9
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×10
• Ezekiel×5
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, “Indeed, I will go down to my son mourning, to Sheol.” Thus his father wept for him.

• Genesis 42:38

  But he said, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are making, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hair in misery to Sheol.’

• Genesis 44:31

  when he sees that the young man is not there, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to Sheol.

• Numbers 16:30

  But if YHWH creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all that is theirs, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you shall know that these men have spurned YHWH.”

• Numbers 16:33

  So they and all that was theirs went down alive to Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

• Deuteronomy 32:22

  For a fire has been kindled in my anger, and it burns to the lowest Sheol; it devours the earth and its produce and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

• 1 Samuel 2:6

  YHWH puts to death and makes alive; he brings down to Sheol and brings up.

• 2 Samuel 22:6

  The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

• 1 Kings 2:6

  So act according to your wisdom, and do not bring down his gray hair in peace to Sheol.

• 1 Kings 2:9

  But now do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man, and you will know what you should do to him, and you shall bring down his gray hair with blood to Sheol.”

• Job 7:9

  The cloud comes to an end and goes away; so one who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

• Job 11:8

  It is the heights of the heavens; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

• Job 14:13

  Who would grant that in Sheol you would keep me hidden, that you would conceal me until your anger turned away, that you would set me a limit and remember me.

• Job 17:13

  If I hope for Sheol as my house, in darkness I spread out my bed;

• Job 17:16

  Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Or together into the dust will be the descent?”

• Job 21:13

  They finish their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat seize the waters of snow; Sheol, those who have sinned.

• Job 26:6

  Naked is Sheol before him, and Abaddon has no covering.

• Psalms 6:5

  For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you thanks?

• Psalms 9:17

  The wicked will return to Sheol, all the nations that forget Elohim.

• Psalms 16:10

  For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not let your faithful one see the pit.

• Psalms 18:5

  The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

• Psalms 30:3

  YHWH, you brought up from Sheol my soul; you kept me alive from going down to the pit.

• Psalms 31:17

  YHWH, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on you; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

• Psalms 49:14

  Like sheep for Sheol they are put; death shepherds them; and the upright will rule over them in the morning; and their form is for Sheol to consume, far from its dwelling.

• Psalms 49:15

  But Elohim will ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, for he will take me. Selah.

• Psalms 55:15

  Let death come by surprise upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evils are where they reside, within them.

• Psalms 86:13

  For your loyal love is great toward me, and you have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

• Psalms 88:3

  For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life has reached Sheol.

• Psalms 89:48

  What man will live and not see death, who can make his soul escape from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

• Psalms 116:3

  The cords of death encompassed me, and the distresses of Sheol found me; distress and sorrow I found.

• Psalms 139:8

  If I go up to the heavens, there you are; and if I make my bed in Sheol, look, you are there.

• Psalms 141:7

  As one who plows and breaks open the earth, our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

• Proverbs 1:12

  let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

• Proverbs 5:5

  Her feet go down to death; to Sheol her steps hold fast.

• Proverbs 7:27

  Her house is the ways to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

• Proverbs 9:18

  But he does not know that the shades are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

• Proverbs 15:11

  Sheol and Abaddon are before YHWH; how much more the hearts of human beings!

• Proverbs 15:24

  The path of life leads upward for the prudent, so that he may turn away from Sheol below.

And 26 more times.