Bible Question:
The Hebrew word "sheol" appears 66 times in the Hebrew scripture. About half of these are translated "hell" and about half are translated "grave." QUESTION: How was the EARLY reader to distinguish between a "place of everlasting torment" and "a hole in the ground" without the wisdom of King James' translators to help him? |
Bible Answer: Shalom Radar; The Hebrew word she'ol comes from the root sha'al which means "unknown" and is used to identify a question and would be translated as "he asked". The word she'ol literally means "the place of the unknown". While our western minds continually attempt to explain the unknown, the ancient Hebrew (eastern) mind did not concern itself with the unknown. They understood that what was beyond death was unknown and left it at that. The Greek (western) mind attempts to explain what is beyond death with such concepts as "hell", "heaven", etc. Simchat Torah |
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