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Underworld, in the Hebrew Bible
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sheol
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She'ol ( or ; Hebrew Šʾôl ), in the Hebrew Bible , is a place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from the Hebrew ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheol \She"ol\ (sh[=e]"[=o]l), n. [Heb. sh[e^ =o]l.] The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave. For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheol. --Ps. xvi. 10. (Rev. Ver.)
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While I had gazed upon the face of Sheol through his eyes, I had learned what he knew of the star and the other worlds that formed our solar system.
While the others of his kind watched Sheol shuddering and writhing in the beginnings of its death throes, Set pondered carefully and drew his plans.
For the planet kept its face always turned to its star, Sheol, and all the cities of this world were on the daylit side of Shaydan.
They began to dig in, to extend their cities and dwellings underground in the hope that the bulk of their planet would help to protect them from the worst of the radiation that Sheol would one day rain upon the surface of Shaydan.
Set and his fellow patriarchs were the winners of a devastating war that had nearly destroyed all of Shaydan a thousand years before they learned that Sheol would explode.
Vicious flares heaved fountains of lethal radiation as if Sheol were trying to protect itself from me.
With grim pleasure I realized that Sheol was truly dying already, its nuclear fires simmering, faltering, making the entire star shudder as it wavered between stability and explosion.
I felt all the pains of hell as Sheol exploded not merely once, but again and again.
Bolts of energy streaked in from deep interstellar space to reach into the heart of Sheol and tear at it like a vulture eating at the innards of its chained victim.
By destroying Sheol, by shattering Shaydan, I was killing creatures large and small, plant and animal, predator and prey, all across the face of the earth.
They thought that destroying Sheol would put an end to him, but now they realize he is firmly entrenched on Earth.
I saw tortured Sheol breathe its final burst of flame and collapse at last into a gaudy ovoid of a planet, spinning madly, striped in brilliant colors, still heated from within by the energy of its final collapse, circled by dozens of fragments of the shattered Shaydan.
For this novel I proposed that the reptilians that evolved on the fictitious planet Shaydan orbiting the equally fictitious star Sheol evolved intelligence through motherly care and a form of telepathy.
In this novel the dwarf star Sheol evolves into our familiar planet Jupiter through the determined efforts of Orion and the Creators.
Powers had inhabited Sheol and a number of other planets that humanity had discovered, then abandoned them.