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Biblical text on a synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic: "Hashem kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up." (1 Samuel 2:6)Sheol (/ ˈ ʃ iː. oʊ l,-əl / SHEE-ohl, -uhl; Hebrew: שְׁאוֹל Šəʾōl, Tiberian: Šŏʾōl) [1] in the Hebrew Bible is the underworld place of stillness and darkness which lies after death.
These words all translate the Biblical Hebrew word rāqīaʿ (רָקִ֫יעַ ), used for example in Genesis 1.6, where it is contrasted with shamayim (שָׁמַיִם ), translated as "heaven(s)" in Genesis 1.1. Rāqīaʿ derives from the root rqʿ (רָקַע ), meaning "to beat or spread out thinly".
The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible; abaddon means destruction or "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is accompanied by Sheol. Job 26:6: Sheol is naked before Him; Abaddon has no cover. Job 28:22: Abaddon and Death say, “We have only a report of it.”
Young's Literal Translation and the New World Translation are two notable exceptions, both of which simply use the word "Gehenna". Hades Hades is the Greek word which is traditionally used in place of the Hebrew word Sheol in works such as the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Like other first-century Jews who were literate ...
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin.Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw (ת ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.
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As a verb, this word means "to extend" an arm/hand toward an object (in order to touch or grasp it). OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally give it away before revealing the answer!