{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7585",
  "lemma": "שְׁאוֹל",
  "transliteration": "shᵉʼôwl",
  "definition": "Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates",
  "kjv": "grave, hell, pit.",
  "occurrences": 66,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H7592",
      "lemma": "שָׁאַל",
      "transliteration": "shâʼal",
      "meaning": "to inquire",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H7592"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שְׁאוֹל, שְׁאֹל n.f. Shᵉ’ōl, underworld (√ dub.; i.e. place of inquiry)"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:35",
      "text": "All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 42:38",
      "text": "He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=38"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 44:29",
      "text": "If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 44:31",
      "text": "it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:30",
      "text": "But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:33",
      "text": "So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:22",
      "text": "For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:6",
      "text": "“The LORD kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 22:6",
      "text": "The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 2:6",
      "text": "Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/2?v=6"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
  "license": "https://besorah.bible/data-licence.txt",
  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}