sheol

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1. sheol - Noun

2. Sheol - Proper noun

Meaning

The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.

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Although not well defined in the Tanakh, Sheol in this view was a subterranean underworld where the souls of the dead went after the body died. Source: Internet

For biblical references to Sheol see Genesis 42:38, Isaiah 14:11, Psalm 141:7, Daniel 12:2, Proverbs 7:27 and Job 10:21,22, and 17:16, among others. Source: Internet

Thus he speaks often of death in personified terms, as the captor of an enslaved human race or as an insatiable glutton; although Sheol, where the dead now exist, is a dark place of sleep. Source: Internet

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was in his humanity (that is, in history) crucified, and died, descending into Hades ( Sheol ), the place of the dead, as all humans do. Source: Internet

One might take this as implying that Sheol is literally underground, although it is as easily read literally, as signifying an earthquake or split in the earth. Source: Internet

Some passages in the corpus suggest that the dead continue to act, in Sheol, as they have during life (e. Source: Internet

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