Bible Terminology

Concerning Immortality And Eternal Life

Paul Nethercott

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HEBREW WORD NEPHESH

The Hebrew word Nephesh occurs 754 times in the Old Testament. In the KJV Bible it is translated "soul" 472 times.

Hebrew Word Nephesh

In the KJV Bible the Hebrew word nephesh is translated 471 times as the word “soul” (Except Job 30:15 and Isaiah 57:16).

Nephesh-Soul

HEBREW WORD SHEOL

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. Genesis 37:35

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which you go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Genesis 42:38

29 And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 31 It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave. Genesis 44:29, 31

30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. Numbers 16:30, 33

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. Deuteronomy 32:22

The LORD killed, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up. 1 Samuel 2:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me. 2 Samuel 22:6

6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace. 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for you art a wise man, and know what you ought to do unto him; but his hoar head bring you down to the grave with blood. 1 Kings 2:6 9

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more. Job 7:9

It is as high as heaven; what canst you do? Deeper than hell; what canst you know? Job 11:8

O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! Job 14:13

13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Job 17:13, 16

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21:13

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned. Job 24:19 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. Job 26:6

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks? Psalm 6:5 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 9:17

For you wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. Psalm 16:10

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. Psalm 18:5

O LORD, you has brought up my soul from the grave: you has kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Psalm 30:3

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Psalm 31:17

14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. Psalm 49:14, 15

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Psalm 55:15

For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. Psalm 86:13 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws nigh unto the grave. Psalm 88:3

What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. Psalm 89:48

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Psalm 116:3

If I ascend up into heaven, you art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you art there. Psalm 139:8

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth. Psalm 141:7

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: Proverbs 1:12 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Proverbs 5:5

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Proverbs 7:27

But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. Proverbs 9:18

11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? 24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. Proverbs 15:11, 24

Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. Proverbs 23:14 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. Proverbs 27:20

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that said not, It is enough. Proverbs 30:16

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither you goes. Ecclesiastes 9:10

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame. Song of Solomon 8:6

Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall descend into it. Isaiah 5:14

9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Isaiah 14:9, 11, 15

15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. Isaiah 28:15, 18

10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. Isaiah 38:10, 14

And you went to the king with ointment, and didst increase your perfumes, and didst send your messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. Isaiah 57:9

15 Thus said the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. Ezekiel 31:15-17

21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. Ezekiel 32:21, 27

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. Hosea 13:14

Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: Amos 9:2

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice. Jonah 2:2

Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people: Habakkuk 2:5.

THE WORD GEHENNA

22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 29 And if thy right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend you, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:22, 29, 30

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28

And if your eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Matthew 18:9

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 33 You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Matthew 23:15, 33

43 And if thy hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 45 And if thy foot offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 47 And if your eye offend you, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Mark 9:43, 45, 47

But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, which after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. Luke 12:5

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. James 3:6.

THE WORD HADES

And you, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. Matthew 11:23

And I say also unto you, That you art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18

And you, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell. Luke 10:15

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Luke 16:23

27 Because you wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 31 He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. Acts 2:27, 31

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Corinthians 15:55

I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Revelation 1:18

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. Revelation 6:8

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Revelation 20:13, 14.

 
GREEK WORD EON

αἰών aion

Matthew 12:32 Be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Matthew 13:22 Hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,

Matthew 13:39 The harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Matthew 13:40 Gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

Matthew 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth,

Matthew 24:3 What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Matthew 28:20 You always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Mark 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,

Mark 10:30 With persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

Luke 1:70 The mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Luke 16:8 Done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser

Luke 18:30 In this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Luke 20:34 Said unto them, The children of this world marry.

Luke 20:35 Be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the

John 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the

Acts 3:21 Has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the

1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the

1 Corinthians 2:6 Yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world.

1 Corinthians 2:7 The hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

1 Corinthians 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they

1 Corinthians 3:18 Among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he

1 Corinthians 8:13 I will eat no flesh while the world stands, lest I make my brother

1 Corinthians 10:11 Written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which

Galatians 1:4 Might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God

Ephesians 1:21 Name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to

Ephesians 3:9 Mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God.

Ephesians 3:21 By Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Ephesians 6:12 The rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded,

2 Timothy 4:10 Forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto

Titus 2:12 We should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Hebrews 1:2 He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Hebrews 6:5 Have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

Hebrews 9:26 But now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word.

Aἰówtoç Aiōnios

Romans 16:25 The revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.

2 Timothy 1:9 Which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

Titus 1:2 Which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

GREEK WORDS FOR IMMORTALITY

Changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man. Romans 1:23 They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 1 Corinthians 9:25 The dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52 The King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God. 1 Timothy 1:17

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you. 1 Peter 1:4

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible. 1 Peter 1:23

That which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 1 Peter 3:4

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: Romans 2:7

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 1 Corinthians 15:42

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:50

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:53

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Corinthians 15:54

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Ephesians 6:24

But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: 2 Timothy 1:10

In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. Titus 2:7

 
OTHER GREEK WORDS

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