# H7585 שְׁאוֹל

שְׁאוֹל (shᵉʼôwl), Strong’s H7585: Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates KJV: grave, hell, pit.. Occurs 66 times.

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

KJV: grave, hell, pit.

Derived from [שָׁאַל shâʼal](https://besorah.bible/word/H7592) (to inquire)

Occurs 66 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שְׁאוֹל, שְׁאֹל n.f. Shᵉ’ōl, underworld (√ dub.; i.e. place of inquiry)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 37:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35) — 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…
- [Genesis 42:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=38) — 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…
- [Genesis 44:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=29) — If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
- [Genesis 44:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=31) — 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…
- [Numbers 16:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=30) — But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them…
- [Numbers 16:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=33) — So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from…
- [Deuteronomy 32:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=22) — For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the…
- [1 Samuel 2:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=6) — “The LORD kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.
- [2 Samuel 22:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=6) — The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
- [1 Kings 2:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/2?v=6) — Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.