Sheol and Hades are one-and-the-same; that is, they refer to the same condition or place. Sheol is the Hebrew term and Hades is the Greek. For proof of this, note the following Psalm passage, which speaks of Sheol, then observe how the Hebrewsheolis supplanted by the Greekhadeswhen t...
Is “Sheol” Hell? 1 Quiz Expand Is “Gehenna” Hell? 1 Quiz Expand Is the “outer darkness” hell? 1 Quiz Expand Is “Tartarus” or the “Abyss” hell? Is “Hades” Hell? Is the “Lake of Fire” hell? (Revelation 20-21) 1 Quiz Expand What do James 3:6 an...
disembodied state is not the final word. The martyred souls under the throne in heaven await their final vindication: “They cried out with a loud voice, ‘O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’ Then they...
For most of us, the image we have in our minds of what God looks like is based on Renaissance paintings, like Michelangelo’s fresco of the “Creation of Adam” on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. In that portrait, both God and Adam are portrayed as white men. Michelangelo painted God wi...
The abode of the dead in any of various religious traditions, such as the Hebrew Sheol or the Greek Hades; the underworld. Hail To fall like hailstones Condemnations hailed down on them. Hell A situation or place of evil, misery, discord, or destruction "War is hell" (William Tecumseh Sh...
What is Hell? There are four meanings of hell in the Bible. In the Old Testament, the word is 'sheol' which simply means 'the grave'. There are three different words in the New Testament which are translated 'hell'. Those three words are: Tartarus, Gehenna and Hades. Let's look at...
Even if you are a faithful, believing Christian, you may go to hell! Many of your loved ones are right now in hell! But don't be alarmed. You probably have never heard the TRUTH about what "hell" really is — and where most ideas on the subject came from
“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[g]and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape. 2 “If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand ...
We see him in Job 26:6 and Proverbs 15:11. As Job describes God’s wondrous power, he declares that “the realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered” (Job 26:6). The realm of the dead is Sheol or Hell and even this place is helpless before Almighty God....
1. Hades refers to “the grave,”“the pit” or “place of the dead.” The Holman Bible Dictionary explains that “Hades is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew term ‘Sheol,’ which refers in general to the place of the dead” (1991, “Hades”). Psalm 16:10 and Acts 2:27 use She...