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Strong’s H7585 · Hebrew

שְׁאוֹל

shᵉʼôwl · sheh-ole'

Origin or שְׁאֹל; from שָׁאַל (H7592);

Meaning Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates

In the King James Version grave, hell, pit.

In 63 verses of the King James Version

1–50 of 63

  1. Genesis 37:35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
  2. Genesis 42:38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
  3. Genesis 44:29And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
  4. Genesis 44:31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
  5. Numbers 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
  6. Numbers 16:33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
  7. Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
  8. 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
  9. 2 Samuel 22:6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
  10. 1 Kings 2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
  11. 1 Kings 2:9Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
  12. Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
  13. Job 11:8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
  14. Job 14:13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  15. Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
  16. Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
  17. Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
  18. Job 24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
  19. Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
  20. Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
  21. Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
  22. Psalms 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  23. Psalms 18:5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
  24. Psalms 30:3O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  25. Psalms 31:17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
  26. Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
  27. Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
  28. Psalms 55:15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
  29. Psalms 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  30. Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
  31. Psalms 89:48What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
  32. Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  33. Psalms 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
  34. Psalms 141:7Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
  35. Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
  36. Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
  37. Proverbs 7:27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
  38. Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
  39. Proverbs 15:11Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
  40. Proverbs 15:24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
  41. Proverbs 23:14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
  42. Proverbs 27:20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
  43. Proverbs 30:16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
  44. Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
  45. Song of Songs 8:6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
  46. Isaiah 5:14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
  47. Isaiah 14:9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  48. Isaiah 14:11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
  49. Isaiah 14:15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
  50. Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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