单词 | sheol |
释义 | Sheoln. The underworld; the abode of the dead or departed spirits, conceived by the Hebrews as a subterranean region clothed in thick darkness, return from which is impossible. (Very common in the Revised Version of the Old Testament, where in the King James Bible it was translated ‘hell’, ‘grave’, or ‘pit’.) ⁋In recent slang sometimes jocularly substituted for ‘hell’. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] helleOE hellOE perditiona1382 perishingc1384 welling woea1400 hellwardc1400 Topheta1425 gehenne1481 to devilwardc1550 limbo1581 Averna1592 Hades1597 Sheol1599 other place1604 underworld1608 infernals1613 gehenna1623 lower world1639 netherworld1640 pandemonium1667 subterrenea1711 diablerie1776 inferno1834 ballyhooly1837 nether region1839 Sam Hill1839 Ballyhack1843 tunket1871 bogydom1880 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xiii. 45 Sheol, at the best, either is not Heauen,..or else there is a third place besides Heauen and Hell called Sheol for the Saints to rest in. 1642 Of Article of Creed ‘Christ descended to Hades’ 2 Christs soule did descendere ad Inferos, or goe to Sheol or Hades. 1822 R. Scott Script. Claims of Devil 499 We cannot..interpret the term Sheol, as referring to a Hell of eternal torments. 1873 F. C. Cook in Speaker's Comm. IV. 63/1 Nor is the state of the just in Sheol ever represented as one of suffering. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 421 'Rah for protection—to Sheol with free-trade! 1890 J. Fyfe (title) The Hereafter: Sheol, Hades, and Hell. 1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise v. 117 Briefly, Dickie, I have been out all night and there's sheol to pay. 1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves vii. 116 Them big bugs are the meanest things this side sheol. Derivatives ˈSheol-like adj. ΚΠ 1910 J. Orr in Expositor Nov. 398 Ghostly survival in some Sheol-like condition of semi-existence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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