KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A place beneath, associated with the dead, destruction, and confinement. Sense 2: The place of punishment and torment, described as hell fire and fire that never shall be quenched. Sense 3: By figure, the depths, pains, or destructive power of death and overwhelming affliction.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 32:22
Complete exact-word concordance
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I ascend vp into heauen, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
1611 marginal noteAmos 9.2.,3,4.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Her feete goe downe to death: her steps take hold on hell.
1611 marginal noteChap.7.27.
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death.
1611 marginal noteChap.2.18. & 5.5.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
But hee knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then, the hearts of the children of men?
1611 marginal noteIob 26.6.
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
The way of life is aboue to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
1611 marginal notePhil.3.20. col.3.2.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Thou shalt beate him with the rod, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Hell and destruction are neuer full: so the eyes of man are neuer satisfied.
1611 marginal noteHebr. not.
1611 marginal noteEccles.1.8
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth, shall descend into it.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Hell from beneath is mooued for thee to meet thee at thy comming: it stirreth vp the dead for thee, euen all the chiefe ones of the earth; it hath raised vp from their thrones, all the kings of the nations.
1611 marginal noteOr, the graue.
1611 marginal noteHebr. leaders, or great goats.
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
The place of torment.
The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. […] The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the lower regions, or the grave […] The pains of hell temporal death, or agonies that dying persons feel, or which bring to the brink of the grave.
