# שְׁאוֹל (sheol)

Israeli respelling: sheol. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7585. 64 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: grave, hell, pit.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sheol-h7585

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 37:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/35) — And 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 42:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/38) — And 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 44:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/29) — And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- [Genesis 44:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/31) — It 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 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/30) — But 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 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/33) — They, 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 32:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/22) — For 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 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/6) — The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
- [2 Samuel 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/6) — The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
- [1 Kings 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/6) — Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
- [1 Kings 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/9) — Now 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 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/9) — As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
- [Job 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/8) — It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- [Job 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/13) — O 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 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/13) — If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- [Job 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/16) — They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- [Job 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/13) — They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- [Job 24:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/19) — Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
- [Job 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/6) — Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- [Psalms 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/6/5) — For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
- [Psalms 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/17) — The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
- [Psalms 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/16/10) — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- [Psalms 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/5) — The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
- [Psalms 30:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/30/3) — O 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 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/17) — Let 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 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/14) — Like 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 49:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/15) — But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
- [Psalms 55:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/15) — Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
- [Psalms 86:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/86/13) — For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
- [Psalms 88:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/3) — For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
- [Psalms 89:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/48) — What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
- [Psalms 116:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/116/3) — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- [Psalms 139:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/8) — If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
- [Psalms 141:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/7) — Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- [Proverbs 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/12) — Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- [Proverbs 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/5) — Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
- [Proverbs 7:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/27) — Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
- [Proverbs 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/18) — But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
- [Proverbs 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/11) — Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
- [Proverbs 15:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/24) — The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
- [Proverbs 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/14) — Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
- [Proverbs 27:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/20) — Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- [Proverbs 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/16) — The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
- [Ecclesiastes 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/10) — Whatsoever 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 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/6) — Set 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 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/14) — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he th…
- [Isaiah 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/11) — Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
- [Isaiah 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/9) — Hell 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 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/11) — Thy 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 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/15) — Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
- [Isaiah 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/15) — Because 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 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/18) — And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass th…
- [Isaiah 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/10) — I 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 38:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/18) — For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
- [Isaiah 57:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/9) — And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thysel…
- [Ezekiel 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/15) — Thus 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 31:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/16) — I 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 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/17) — They 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 32:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/21) — The 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 32:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/27) — And 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 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/14) — I 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 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/2) — Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
- [Jonah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/2/2) — And 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 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/5) — Yea 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,…