I see you guys discussing HELL and I wanted to point out a few things/oddities found in a scripture about hell.....
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.
Hell is from....
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)
herself is from
nephesh: a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion
Original Word: נֶפֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: nephesh
Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-fesh)
Definition: a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion
Wonder why it is described in the feminine and described as living.........the word her mouth is simply mouth and is masculine in scope in the Hebrew..........could be just the way it is classified.....anyway...My view is a literal place where the lost who have died are stored until the Great White Throne judgment of Revelations 20........then moved to the lake of fire...........but the above is interesting--->I.E. the way it is identified.....
Thoughts?