1. שְׁאוֹל
Shᵉ’ōl, underworld, place of inquiry
The corpus record — Hebrew
שְׁאֹ֑לָה
sheowl · n.f
Shᵉ’ōl, underworld, place of inquiry
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 66 · 2.15/10k
Senses
2. שְׁאוֹל
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
Attestations
- שְׁאֹ֑לָ/ה Genesis 37:35 (BHS)
- שְׁאֽוֹלָ/ה Genesis 42:38 (BHS)
- שְׁאֹֽלָ/ה Genesis 44:29 (BHS)
- שְׁאֹֽלָ/ה Genesis 44:31 (BHS)
- שְׁאֹ֑לָ/ה Numbers 16:30 (BHS)
- שְׁאֹ֑לָ/ה Numbers 16:33 (BHS)
6 of 66 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.