Original Word: ᾅδης
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: hadés
Pronunciation: hah'-dace
Phonetic Spelling: (hah'-dace)
Definition: Hades, the realm of the dead
Meaning: Hades, the unseen world.

Word Origin: From the negative particle "a" (not) and "eido" (to see), meaning "unseen" or "invisible."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - H7585 - Sheol: The Hebrew term for the abode of the dead, often translated as "grave" or "pit."

Usage: In the New Testament, "hadés" refers to the abode of the dead, a temporary place where the souls of the deceased reside. It is often understood as the equivalent of the Old Testament "Sheol," a place of waiting for the final judgment. Hades is depicted as a place of both comfort and torment, depending on one's relationship with God.

Cultural and Historical Background: In ancient Greek culture, Hades was the god of the underworld, and the term also referred to his domain, the place where the dead resided. In Jewish thought, Sheol was a shadowy place where all the dead went, regardless of their moral standing. By the time of the New Testament, Jewish and early Christian thought had developed a more nuanced understanding of the afterlife, with Hades being a temporary state before the final resurrection and judgment.

86 hádēs (from 1 /A "not" and idein/eidō, "see") – properly, the "unseen place," referring to the (invisible) realm in which all the dead reside, i.e. the present dwelling place of all the departed (deceased); Hades.

Word Origin
perhaps from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and eidon (3708)
Definition
Hades, the abode of departed spirits
NASB Translation
Hades (10).

STRONGS NT 86: Ἅιδης

Ἅιδης, ᾅδης, , ὁ (for the older Ἀΐδης, which Homer uses, and this from the alpha privative and ἰδεῖν, not to be seen (cf. Lob. Path. Element. 2:6f)); in the classics

1. a proper name, Hades, Pluto, the god of the lower regions; so in Homer always.

2. an appellative, Orcus, the nether world, the realm of the dead (cf: Theocritus, idyll. 2,159 schol. τήν τοῦ ᾅδου κρούει πύλην. τουτ' ἔστιν ἀποθανεῖται. In the Sept. the Hebrew שְׁאול is almost always rendered by this word (once by θάνατος, 2 Samuel 22:6); it denotes, therefore, in Biblical Greek Orcus, the infernal regions, a dark (Job 10:21) and dismal place (but cf. γέεννα and παράδεισος) in the very depths of the earth (Job 11:8; Isaiah 57:9; Amos 9:2, etc.; see ἄβυσσος), the common receptacle of disembodied spirits: Luke 16:23; εἰς ᾅδου namely, δόμον, Acts 2:27, 31, according to a very common ellipsis, cf. Winers Grammar, 592 (550) (Buttmann, 171 (149)); (but L T Tr WH in Acts 2:27 and T WH in both verses read εἰς ᾅδην; so the Sept. Psalm 15:10 ()); πύλαι ᾅδου, Matthew 16:18 (πυλωροί ᾅδου, Job 38:17; see πύλη); κλείς τοῦ ᾅδου, Revelation 1:18; Hades as a power is personified, 1 Corinthians 15:55 (where L T Tr WH read θάνατε for R G ᾅδῃ (cf. Acts 2:24 Tr marginal reading)); Revelation 6:8; Revelation 20:13f. Metaphorically, ἕως ᾅδου καταβαίνειν or) καταβιβάζεσθαι to (go or) be thrust down into the depth of misery and disgrace: Matthew 11:23 (here L Tr WH καταβαίνειν); Luke 10:15 (here Tr marginal reading WH text καταβαίνειν). (See especially Boettcher, De Inferis, under the word ἀϊδής in Greek index. On the existence and locality of Hades cf. Greswell on the Parables, Appendix, chapter x, vol. v, part ii, pp. 261-406; on the doctrinal significance of the word see the BB. DD. [Hades] and E. R. Craven in Lange on Revelation, pp. 364-377.)

grave, hell.

From a (as negative particle) and eido; properly, unseen, i.e. "Hades" or the place (state) of departed souls -- grave, hell.

see GREEK a

see GREEK eido

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