שְׁאוֹלshᵉʼôwl/sheh-ole'/
HebrewH758565 occurrences (KJV)
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV renders it: grave, hell, pit.
Where it appears(showing the first 63 of 65)
- Gen 37:35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.
- Gen 42:38He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
- Gen 44:29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
- Gen 44:31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
- Num 16:30But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
- Num 16:33So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
- 1 Sam 2:6“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
- 2 Sam 22:6The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
- 1 Kgs 2:6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
- 1 Kgs 2:9Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”
- Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
- Job 11:8They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
- Job 14:13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- Job 17:16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
- Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
- Job 24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Ps 6:5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
- Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
- Ps 16:10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
- Ps 18:5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
- Ps 30:3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- Ps 31:17Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
- Ps 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
- Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
- Ps 55:15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
- Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Ps 88:3For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
- Ps 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
- Ps 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
- Ps 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
- Ps 141:7“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
- Prov 1:12Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
- Prov 5:5Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Prov 7:27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
- Prov 9:18But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Prov 15:11Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh — how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
- Prov 15:24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
- Prov 23:14Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
- Prov 27:20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
- Prov 30:16Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
- Eccl 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- Song 8:6Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
- Isa 5:14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
- Isa 14:9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isa 14:11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
- Isa 14:15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
- Isa 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
- Isa 28:18Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
- Isa 38:10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
- Isa 38:18For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
- Isa 57:9You went to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
- Ezek 31:15Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
- Ezek 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
- Ezek 31:17They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.
- Ezek 32:21The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
- Ezek 32:27They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
- Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
- Jonah 2:2He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
- Hab 2:5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.