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# sheol

«sheol» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **In the Bible, the underworld, the place where the dead go** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

In the Bible, the underworld, the place where the dead go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheol/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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.

### examples

- The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me. (Prophets 2SA.22.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheol/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.665/)
- [The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.216/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sheol» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheol/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.