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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
- 2 Samuel 22:6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
- 1 Kings 2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
- 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.
- Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
- Job 11:8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- 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!
- Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Job 24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
- Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
- Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
- Psalms 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Psalms 18:5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
- Psalms 55:15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
- Psalms 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
- Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
- 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.
- Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
- Psalms 141:7Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
- Proverbs 7:27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
- Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
- Proverbs 15:11Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
- Proverbs 15:24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
- Proverbs 23:14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
- Proverbs 27:20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Isaiah 14:15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
- 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.