Hades
ha'-dez (Haides, haides, "not to be seen"): Hades, Greek
originally Haidou, in genitive, "the house of Hades," then,
as nominative, designation of the abode of the dead itself.
The word occurs in the New Testament in Mt 11:23 (parallel
Lk 10:15); Mt 16:18; Lk 16:23; Acts 2:27,31; Rev 1:18; 6:8;
20:13 f. It is also found in Textus Receptus of t...
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1. The unseen world, translated "hell" in A. V., but in the R.
V. the word "Hades" is retained
Mt 10:28; 11:23; 16:18; Lu 10:15; 16:23; Ac 2:27,31;
Re
1:18; 6:8; 20:13,14
See HELL
-2. The realm (state) of the dead
2Sa 22:6; Job 26:5; Ps 6:5; 17:15; 30:9; 49:15; 86:13;
88:10-12; 115:17; 116:3; Pr 15:24; 21:16; 27:20; Ec
9:4-6;
Isa 5:14; Jo...
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that which is out of sight, a Greek word used to denote the
state or place of the dead. All the dead alike go
into this
place. To be buried, to go down to the grave, to
descend into
hades, are equivalent expressions. In the LXX. this
word is the
usual rendering of the Hebrew sheol, the common
receptacle of
the departed (Gen. 42:38; Ps. 139...
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