sheol

noun

«sheol» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Used as the dark place of the dead, with cords and snares in poetry, showing how close David felt to death.

Interpretation. Later tradition developed ideas of a world to come and of Gehinnom, while Sheol in the text is the grave or realm of the dead.

In the Bible, the underworld, the place where the dead go. tree →

The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me. (Prophets 2SA.22.6, JPS 1917) tree →

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