sheol

  • 11Sheol — noun Etymology: Hebrew Shĕ ōl Date: 1597 the abode of the dead in early Hebrew thought …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 12Sheol — Scheol (hebr. שאול) ist im Tanach eine Bezeichnung für das Totenreich. Das Wort hat in anderen semitischen Sprachen keine Entsprechung. Seine Etymologie ist ungeklärt.[1] Es wird im Tanach stets ohne bestimmten Artikel verwendet und ist deshalb… …

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  • 13Sheol — /shee ohl/, n. (in Hebrew theology) 1. the abode of the dead or of departed spirits. 2. (l.c.) hell. [1590 1600; < Heb sha ol] * * * …

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  • 14sheol — noun (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 …

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  • 15Sheol —    (Heb., the all demanding world = Gr. Hades, the unknown region ), the invisible world of departed souls. (See Hell.) …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 16SHEOL —    the dark underworld or Hades of the Hebrews, inhabited by the shades of the dead …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 17sheol — Hebrew term for the lower parts of the earth or underworld to which the departed were thought to be consigned (Prov. 9:18). There they continued in gloomy insubstantiality (Ecclus.=Sir. 17:27–8) which was foreshadowed by the deep depressions in&#8230; …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 18SHEOL —    the place of departed SPIRITS often referred to as the underworld in the HEBREW BIBLE …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 19Sheol — n. underworld, realm inhabited by the spirits of the dead (Hebrew) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 20Sheol — [ ʃi:əʊl, ʃi:ɒl] noun the Hebrew underworld, abode of the dead. Origin from Heb …

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