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book of Hebrews: better from Greek, or Aramaic?
Sheol is a Hebrew word. And an Aramaic word. Sheol (as in, the grave, death), appears in the Hebrew OT, and in the Aramaic NT. That word seems to derive from sheol (as in, ask, request, require, demand), and _that_ word is in the Aramaic portion of the OT (in Daniel and Ezra).

https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Sheol.html
The name Sheol: Summary
Meaning
Asked For
Etymology
From the verb שאל (sha'al), to ask or ask for.
Related names
• Via שאל (sha'al): Saul, Sheal, Shealtiel, Shelah
The concept of Sheol
The name Sheol in the Bible
Etymology of the name Sheol
Scholars have looked far and wide to explain the name Sheol via words found in other languages but no explanation wholly satisfied and we're back to the obvious, albeit difficult to explain, namely that the name Sheol comes from the verb שאל (sha'al), meaning to ask, inquire, borrow, beg:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
שאל
The verb שאל (sha'al) means to ask. Noun שאלה (she'la) means request or petition, and noun משאלה (mish'ala) means petition or desire. The difficult noun שאול (she'ol) refers primarily to the grave and by extension to death and decomposition. ....
Sheol meaning
The name Sheol means the same thing as the name Saul, namely Asked For, which is obviously curious enough to have scholars franticly look for another explanation, to no avail.
Some say that Sheol was named such because it's never satisfied and will always ask for more (Proverbs 27:20 and 30:16). But perhaps the concept of Sheol originated as a place of rest after a life of trial (1 Kings 2:6).
Perhaps it even reflects the original sin: death is something we asked for when we ate from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, just like our liberties were infringed when we asked for a king to rule over us (1 Samuel 8:7).

_Basics of Biblical Aramaic: Complete Grammar, Lexicon, and Annotated Text_ by Miles V. Van Pelt (2011), 235pp., 234
https://www.amazon.com/Miles-V-Van-Pelt/dp/0310493919/
שאל (Peal) to ask, require

7593. שְׁאֵל (sheel)
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/strongs_7593.htm
Ezra 5:9
NAS: Then we asked those elders
Ezra 5:10
NAS: We also asked them their names
Ezra 7:21
NAS: of heaven, may require of you, it shall be done
Daniel 2:10
NAS: or ruler has [ever] asked anything
Daniel 2:11
NAS: the king demands is difficult,
KJV: that the king requireth, and there is
Daniel 2:27
NAS: the king has inquired, neither
KJV: which the king hath demanded cannot

7585. sheol
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7585.htm
sheol: underworld (place to which people descend at death)
Original Word: שְׁאוֹל
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: sheol
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ole')
Definition: underworld (place to which people descend at death)
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
underworld (place to which people descend at death)
NASB Translation
Sheol (66).
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RE: book of Hebrews: better from Greek, or Aramaic? - by DavidFord - 06-13-2020, 01:04 AM

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