שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl — hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
Translated in the KJV as grave, hell, pit.
or שְׁאֹל; from H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates.
shᵉʼôwl in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
שְׁאָ֔לָה Isa 7:11 Infinitive construct
Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›