Numbers 16:33:6Num.16.33.W6TAB
שְׁאֹלָה
sheolah
“into Sheol”
- Transliteration
- she-o-LAH
- Extended
- sheh-oh-LAAH
- IPA
- /ʃə.ʔoˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- into Sheol
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
she-o-LAH
- sentence
va-yer-DU HEM ve-KOL-a-SHER la-HEM kha-YIM she-o-LAH va-te-KHAS a-lei-HEM ha-A-retz va-yo-ev-DU mi-TOHKH ha-ka-HAL
Exegesis
The adjective chayyim {חַיִּ֖ים | ḥayyîm} ‘alive’ specifies the ironic descent into sheolah {שְׁאֹלָה | šəʾōlāh} ‘to Sheol.’
Root and etymology
Rootshin-aleph-lamed
“to inquire”
In context — Numbers 16:33
And they went down, they and all that belonged to them, alive into Sheol ; and the earth covered them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:33:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 16:33, so the Hebrew word שְׁאֹלָה (sheolah) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Num.16.33.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.33.W6.S1) and character.