Strong’s H7585

שְׁאוֹל

sheol · 64 Old Testament occurrences

King James renderings: grave, hell, pit.

Every Old Testament occurrence

• 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 gra…
• 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 whi…
• 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…
• 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 qu…
• 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 cong…
• 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 th…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 be…
• 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…
• Song of Solomon 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…
• Isaiah 5:14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he th…
• Isaiah 7:11Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
• 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…
• 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 throug…
• Isaiah 28:18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass th…
• Isaiah 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
• Isaiah 38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
• Isaiah 57:9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thysel…
• Ezekiel 31:15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the fl…
• Ezekiel 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees o…
• Ezekiel 31:17They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in t…
• Ezekiel 32:21The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised…
• Ezekiel 32:27And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and the…
• Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destr…
• Amos 9:2Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
• Jonah 2:2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
• Habakkuk 2:5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death,…