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the realm of dead, the common grave of mankind, Hell. In older English translations of the Bible, notably the Authorized or King James Bible, this word is translated as grave or pit
{i} underworld, realm inhabited by the spirits of the dead (Hebrew)
According to the Hebrew Bible, the subterranean region to which the "shades" of all the dead descended, a place of intense gloom, hopelessness, and virtual unconsciousness for its inhabitants The term was translated Hades in the Greek Septuagint and in later Hellenistic times was regarded as an abode of the dead awaiting resurrection (Gen 42: 38; 1 Sam 2: 6; Job 7: 9; 14: 13-14; 26: 6; Pss 6: 5; 16: 10; 55: 15; 139: 8; Prov 27: 20; Eccles 9: 10; Isa 14: 15; 28: 15; 38: 10, 18; Hos 13: 14; Jon 2: 2; cf references to Hades in Matt 16: 18; Luke 10: 15; Acts 2: 31; Rev 1: 18; 20: 15) It is not the same theological concept as hell or Gehenna (Matt 10: 28; 23: 33; Mark 9: 43; Luke 12: 5)
Place of departed dead in (some) ancient Israeli thought without reference to punishments and rewards
Sheol, in the Tenakh, is a shadowy place to which the dead go Sometimes it is translated as 'the grave', but it is not the end; life continues
The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave
In ancient Jewish cosmology, Sheol was the place of the dead, or the underworld Often translated as "the Pit", "the Grave", or "hell", Sheol is not to be confused with the later concept of Hell as a place of punishment, but was simply the place where all the dead were supposed to go Its existence in cosmology indicates an undeveloped idea of an afterlife, which later became more definite It is approximately equivalent to the Greek idea of Hades
(Heb , "the all-demanding world" = Gr Hades, "the unknown region"), the invisible world of departed souls (See HELL )
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