Definitions for sheolˈʃi oʊl
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
* Hebrew Theol. .
Origin of Sheol:
1590–1600; < Heb shə'ōl
(Old Testament) 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.
Origin: From שיול (sheol), meaning "abode of the dead".
the place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave
She'ol, translated as "grave", "pit", or "abode of the dead", is the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible's underworld, a place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from God. The inhabitants of Sheol were the "shades", entities without personality or strength. Under some circumstances they could be contacted by the living, as the Witch of Endor contacts the shade of Samuel for Saul, but such practices are forbidden. While the Old Testament writings describe Sheol as the permanent place of the dead, in the Second Temple period a more diverse set of ideas developed: in some texts, Sheol is the home of both the righteous and the wicked, separated into respective compartments; in others, it was a place of punishment, meant for the wicked dead alone. When the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek in ancient Alexandria around 200 BC the word "Hades" was substituted for Sheol, and this is reflected in the New Testament where Hades is both the underworld of the dead and the personification of the evil it represents.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
the dark underworld or Hades of the Hebrews, inhabited by the shades of the dead.
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