- Do unbelievers go to hell instead?
Hell simply means the common 'grave', where mankind returns to dust, a place of darkness, covered.
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The Bible’s parallelism in either Hebrew or koine Greek, or English (KJB), shows us that the word, “hell” simply means “pit,” “grave,” a place of covering, and no light.
2 Samuel 22:6 KJB - The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
Job 26:6 KJB - Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Isaiah 14:15 KJB - Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Ezekiel 31:16 KJB - I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Psalms 16:10 KJB - For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Psalms 18:5 KJB - The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 30:3 KJB - O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms 49:14 KJB - Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalms 49:15 KJB - But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms 49:17 KJB - For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Psalms 49:19 KJB - He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psalms 55:15 KJB - Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Psalms 116:3 KJB - The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 139:8 KJB - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. (See “bed,” “grave,” Job 17:13 KJB.)
Proverbs 1:12 KJB - Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs 5:5 KJB - Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Proverbs 7:27 KJB - Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 9:18 KJB - But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 15:11 KJB - Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Proverbs 27:20 KJB - Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Isaiah 14:15 KJB - Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14:19 KJB - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Isaiah 28:15 KJB - Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Isaiah 28:18 KJB - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isaiah 38:18 KJB - For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Ezekiel 31:16 KJB - I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 32:23 KJB - Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:24 KJB - There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Habakkuk 2:5 KJB - Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Acts 2:27 KJB - Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (See Psa. 16:10 KJB.)
Acts 2:31 KJB - He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Through the whole Bible the various words translated into the English word “hell” are associated and paralleled with the English words “grave,” “pit,” “nether parts,” “corruption” (decay), “destruction,” “consume,” “death,” “the dead,” “bed,” “chambers of death,” “darkness,” “never see light,” “slain,” “hid,” “covered,” “under,” “down,” & “descend.” Other associated words are “soul” (being / person / life), “flesh,” “carcase” (dead body / corpse), opposing to “the land of the living” (thus the place of the dead, a location without life).
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