Noun Hadēs (Hades) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

11: 23And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades (Hadēs). For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
16: 18And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades (Hadēs) will not prevail against it.

Luke

10: 15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades (Hadēs).
16: 23In Hades (Hadēs), where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.

Acts

2: 27For you will not abandon my soul to Hades (Hadēs), or let your Holy One experience corruption.
2: 31Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying, 'He was not abandoned to Hades (Hadēs), nor did his flesh experience corruption.'

Revelation

1: 18and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades (Hadēs).
6: 8I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider's name was Death, and Hades (Hadēs) followed with him; they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and pestilence, and by the wild animals of the earth.
20: 13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, Death and Hades (Hadēs) gave up the dead that were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.
20: 14Then Death and Hades (Hadēs) were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;

Genesis (LXX)

37: 35And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades (Hadēs); and his father wept for him.
42: 38But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and suppose it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which ye go, then ye shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades (Hadēs).
44: 29If then ye take this one also from my presence, and an affliction happen to him by the way, then shall ye bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades (Hadēs).
44: 31it shall even come to pass, when he sees the boy is not with us, that he will die, and thy servants will bring down the old age of thy servant, and our father, with sorrow to Hades (Hadēs).

Numbers (LXX)

16: 30But if the Lord shall shew by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades (Hadēs), then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.
16: 33And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades (Hadēs); and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

Deuteronomy (LXX)

32: 22For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to Hades (Hadēs) below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

1 Samuel (LXX: 1 Kings)

2: 6The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to Hades (Hadēs), and brings up.

1 Kings (LXX: 3 Kings)

2: 6Therefore thou shalt deal with him according to thy wisdom, and thou shalt not bring down his grey hairs in peace to Hades (Hadēs).
2: 9But thou shalt by no means hold him guiltless, for thou art a wise man, and wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to Hades (Hadēs).
2: 35o35o But now do not thou hold him guiltless, for thou art a man of understanding, and thou wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to Hades (Hadēs).

Isaiah (LXX)

5: 14Therefore Hades (Hadēs) has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it.
14: 9 Hades (Hadēs) from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
14: 11Thy glory has come down to Hades (Hadēs), and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering.
14: 15But now thou shalt go down to Hades (Hadēs), even to the foundations of the earth.
14: 19But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to Hades (Hadēs).
28: 15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades (Hadēs), and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:
28: 18except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades (Hadēs) shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, ye shall be beaten down by it.
38: 10I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of Hades (Hadēs): I shall part with the remainder of my years.
38: 18For they that are in Hades (Hadēs) shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades (Hadēs) hope for thy mercy.
57: 9 and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to Hades (Hadēs).

Ezekiel (LXX)

31: 15Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades (Hadēs), the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.
31: 16At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades (Hadēs) with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice plants of Libanus, all that drink water.
31: 17For they went down to Hades (Hadēs) with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.
32: 27And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades (Hadēs) with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.

Amos (LXX)

9: 2Though they hide themselves in Hades (Hadēs), thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Hosea (LXX)

13: 14I will deliver them out of the power of Hades (Hadēs), and will redeem them from death: where is thy penalty, O death? O Hades (Hadēs), where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

Jonas (LXX)

2: 33 and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of Hades (Hadēs): thou heardest my voice.

Habakuk (LXX)

2: 5But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as Hades (Hadēs), and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

Baruch (LXX)

2: 17Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in Hades (Hadēs)s, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:
3: 11that thou art counted with them that go down into Hades (Hadēs)?
3: 19they are vanished and gone down to Hades (Hadēs), and others are come up in their stead.

Daniel (LXX: Theodotion version)

3: 88O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord; praise and exalt him above all for ever: for he hath delivered us from Hades (Hadēs), and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame: even out of the midst of the fire hath he delivered us.

Song (LXX)

8: 6Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as Hades (Hadēs), her shafts are shafts of fire, even the flames thereof.

Job (LXX)

7: 9I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to Hades (Hadēs), he shall not come up again:
11: 8Heaven is high; and what wilt thou do? and there are deeper things than those in Hades (Hadēs); what dost thou know?
14: 13For oh that thou hadst kept me in Hades (Hadēs), and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!
17: 13For if I remain, Hades (Hadēs) is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
17: 16Will they go down with me to Hades (Hadēs), or shall we go down together to the tomb?
21: 13And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of Hades (Hadēs).
26: 6Hades (Hadēs) is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
33: 22His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades (Hadēs).
38: 17And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of Hades (Hadēs) quake when they saw thee?

Ecclesiastes (LXX)

9: 10Whatsoever thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades (Hadēs) whither thou goest.

Esther (LXX)

3: 13gthat the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to Hades (Hadēs) in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.]

Tobit (LXX)

3: 10When she heard these things she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto Hades (Hadēs).
13: 2For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to Hades (Hadēs), and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.

Psalms (LXX)

6: 6For in death no man remembers thee: and who will give thee thanks in Hades (Hadēs)?
9: 18Let sinners be driven away into Hades (Hadēs), even all the nations that forget God.
16 (15): 10because thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades (Hadēs), neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
18 (17): 6The pangs of Hades (Hadēs) came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
30 (29): 4O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades (Hadēs), thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.
31 (30): 18O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades (Hadēs).
49 (48): 15They have laid them as sheep in Hades (Hadēs); death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades (Hadēs) from their glory.
49 (48): 16But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades (Hadēs), when he shall receive me. Pause.
55 (54): 16Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades (Hadēs), for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
86 (85): 13For thy mercy is great toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Hades (Hadēs).
88 (87): 4For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades (Hadēs).
89 (88): 49What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades (Hadēs)? Pause.
94 (93): 17If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades (Hadēs).
115 (113): 17 (25)The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord, nor any that go down to Hades (Hadēs).
116 (114): 3The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of Hades (Hadēs) found me: I found affliction and sorrow.
139 (138): 8If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to Hades (Hadēs), thou art present.
141 (140): 7As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of Hades (Hadēs).

Proverbs (LXX)

1: 12and let us swallow him alive, as Hades (Hadēs) would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:
2: 18For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades (Hadēs) with the giants.
5: 5For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to Hades (Hadēs) with death; and her steps are not established.
7: 27Her house is the way of Hades (Hadēs), leading down to the chambers of death.
9: 18But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of Hades (Hadēs).
14: 12There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depth of Hades (Hadēs).
15: 11Hades (Hadēs) and destruction are manifest to the Lord; how shall not also be the hearts of men?
15: 24The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from Hades (Hadēs).
16: 25There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of Hades (Hadēs).
27: 20Hades (Hadēs) and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable.
30: 16Hades (Hadēs), and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

Sirach (LXX)

9: 12Delight not in the thing that the ungodly have pleasure in; but remember they shall not go unpunished unto Hades (Hadēs).
14: 12Remember that death will not be long in coming, and that the covenant of Hades (Hadēs) is not shewed unto thee.
14: 16Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no seeking of dainties in Hades (Hadēs).
17: 27Who shall praise the most High in Hades (Hadēs), instead of them which live and give thanks?
21: 10The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of Hades (Hadēs).
28: 21The death thereof is an evil death, Hades (Hadēs) were better than it.
41: 4And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there is no inquisition in Hades (Hadēs), whether thou have lived ten, or an hundred, or a thousand years.
48: 5Who didst raise up a dead man from Hades (Hadēs), and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:
51: 5From the depth of the belly of Hades (Hadēs), from an unclean tongue, and from lying words.
51: 6By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my soul drew near even unto death, my life was near to the Hades (Hadēs) beneath.

Wisdom (LXX)

1: 14For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of Hades (Hadēs) upon the earth:
2: 1For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from Hades (Hadēs).
16: 13For thou hast power of life and death: thou leadest to the gates of Hades (Hadēs), and bringest up again.
17: 13But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable Hades (Hadēs),

2 Maccabees (LXX)

6: 23But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age, and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his gray head, whereunto he was come, and his most honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them straightways to send him to Hades (Hadēs).

3 Maccabees (LXX)

4: 8The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only Hades (Hadēs) at hand.
5: 42The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to Hades (Hadēs), crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.
5: 51sent up an exceeding great cry, entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of Hades (Hadēs).
6: 31Then they who were before despised and nigh unto Hades (Hadēs), yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

Psalms of Solomon (LXX)

4: 13(Yet) with all these his soul, like Hades (Hadēs), is not sated.
14: 9Therefore their inheritance is Hades (Hadēs) and darkness and destruction, And they shall not be found in the day when the righteous obtain mercy;
15: 10And the inheritance of sinners is destruction and darkness, And their iniquities shall pursue them unto Hades (Hadēs) beneath.
16: 2my soul had been well nigh poured out unto death, (I had been) nigh unto the gates of Hades (Hadēs) with the sinner,