Dict: easton - Hell

easton:

Hell @ derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there are three words so rendered:

(1.) Sheol, occurring in the Old Testament sixty-five times. This word sheol is derived from a root-word meaning "to ask," "demand;" hence insatiableness kjv@Proverbs:30:15-16). It is rendered "grave" thirty-one times kjv@Genesis:37:35 kjv@Genesis:42:38 kjv@Genesis:44:29 -31; kjv@1Samuel:2:6, etc.). The Revisers have retained this rendering in the historical books with the original word in the margin, while in the poetical books they have reversed this rule. In thirty-one cases in the Authorized Version this word is rendered "hell," the place of disembodied spirits. The inhabitants of sheol are "the congregation of the dead" kjv@Proverbs:21:16). It is (a) the abode of the wicked kjv@Numbers:16:33; kjv@Job:24:19; kjv@Psalms:9:17 kjv@Psalms:31:17, etc.); (b) of the good kjv@Psalms:16:10 kjv@Psalms:30:3 kjv@Psalms:49:15 ; 86:13, etc.). Sheol is described as deep kjv@Job:11:8), dark (10:21-22), with bars (17:16). The dead "go down" to it kjv@Numbers:16:30 kjv@Numbers:16:33 kjv@Ezekiel:31:15-16, 17).

(2.) The Greek word hades of the New Testament has the same scope of signification as sheol of the Old Testament. It is a prison ( kjv@1Peter:3:19), with gates and bars and locks kjv@Matthew:16:18; kjv@Revelation:1:18), and it is downward kjv@Matthew:11:23; kjv@Luke:10:15). The righteous and the wicked are separated. The blessed dead are in that part of hades called paradise kjv@Luke:23:43). They are also said to be in Abraham's bosom kjv@Luke:16:22).

(3.) Gehenna, in most of its occurrences in the Greek New Testament, designates the place of the lost kjv@Matthew:23:33). The fearful nature of their condition there is described in various figurative expressions kjv@Matthew:8:12 kjv@Matthew:13:42 kjv@Matthew:22:13 ; 25:30; kjv@Luke:16:24, etc.). (
See HINNOM.)