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someplace under ground where an immaterial, incorruptible part of persons were stored.
“Yet shall you plunge me in the DITCH (ghath)” Job 9:21
“I have said to CORRUPTION (ghath), you are my father” Job 17:14
“Deliver him from going down in the PIT (ghath)” Job 33:28
“Is fallen into the DITCH (ghath)” Psalms 7:15
“Down into the PIT of destruction (ghath)” Psalms 55:23
“Soul” as it is used today (an immaterial immortal part of a person) would have no need to be delivered from the pit or corruption, the grave which is would never be in and it would not be subject to corruption.
Summery: Bohr is used in Hebrew parallelism or dualism as being parallel in meaning to grave (sheol); it is a hole in the ground and was sometimes dug by man.
Bohr and ghath are a pit, dungeon or well, a real place on this earth that the living can go down into and come up out of as Joseph when he was cast into a pit, or dead persons as David was asking God not to let him die or be killed and go down to the pit; they are not a place where bodiless souls are put; they are not a subterranean chamber someplace under ground where all immaterial, bodiless, living but totally unconscious and unaware of anything souls are kept together, not God’s warehouse where He keeps both the unconscious saved and the unconscious lost together unto the resurrection; or not a chamber that has two sides, one side for the conscious saved and one side for the conscious lost who are in torment. It is used in Hebrew dualism in verse 2 as parallel in meaning to sheol – grave.
(8) Psalms 49:15 "But God will redeem my soul from the power of the GRAVE [sheol-Hell] for he shall receive me." The translators did not believe God would redeem any from Hell. At the resurrection, his life will be redeemed from the grave, from death. If "sheol" were really "Hell," then this passage would be saying God will redeem from Hell, and the writer of this Psalm would have been saying he expected to be in Hell and redeemed from it.
(9) Psalms 88:3 "And my life draws nigh unto the GRAVE [sheol-Hell]." He thought he would soon die, not soon be in Hell. This is one of the good guys but he clearly indicates that he was expecting to be in sheol soon; therefore, sheol was not translated Hell. He asked, “Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise you? Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in destruction? Shall your wonders be known in the dark? And your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?” [Psalms 88:10-12]. It is certain that this righteous man did not think he would be alive in Heaven or conscious any place after death and this Psalm is a prayer for deliverance from death; he was asking to be saved from the darkness of death, not from the light of Heaven.
(10) Isaiah 38:9-12 "A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after his illness and recovery: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the GRAVE [sheol-Hell]: I am deprived of the residue of my years…You do make an end of me." King Hezekiah, a godly king of Israel when he was ill had thought he would die and go to the grave before he was old. If sheol had been translated Hell in this passage, he would have said he expected to go into eternal torment in Hell.
(11) Isaiah 38:16-18 King Hezekiah continues by asking God, "Restore me to health, and let me live…for the GRAVE [sheol-Hell] cannot praise you, death cannot celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth." No distinction is made of the dead. Neither the good or bad dead can praise God. If the good dead are living in Heaven, why could they not praise God? Those who go down to the pit [the grave] are asleep and know nothing; they cannot hope for God's truth while they are asleep. Death, pit and grave (sheol) are used interchangeably in this passage. If the faithful goes to Heaven at death why was Hazekiah earnestly praying not to.
The bad in the grave in 7 passages
(1) 1 Kings 2:6 "And let not his hoar head go down to the GRAVE [sheol-Hell] in peace." No one could have peace while he was being burned by Satan or burned by God with a fire many times hotter than any fire on earth and tormented far worse than any torment known to anyone. The Hell preached today is not a place of peace. In 1 Kings 2:6-9 David is telling Solomon not to let Joab die peacefully because of the evil he had done. There is nothing about Joab being forever tormented in Hell in this. David knew Solomon had the power to bring Joab down the grave, but no one has the power to send anyone to the "Hell" that is preached today, but to make this teach their theology, they seem to be more than willing to give Solomon this power.
(2) 1 Kings 2:9 "But his hoar head bring you down to the GRAVE [sheol-Hell] with blood," see notes on 1 Kings 2:6 above. A man can shed the blood of another man and bring him down to the grave, but only God could say he was going to Hell if there were one.
(3) Job 21:13 "They spend their day in wealth, and in a moment go down to the GRAVE [sheol-Hell]." They "go DOWN to the grave," not to somewhere out in space or who knows where. At one time Hell was believed to be under the earth. In Greek philosophy after death the souls waiting to be reincarnated were under the earth; and Hell, which grew out of Greek philosophy had the souls in torment under the earth. From the Dark Age unto not many years ago, most who believed in Hell believed it was under or deep in the earth just as many who believed in pagan reincarnation believed it was under the earth. Most, but not all, now realize there is no place of torment under the earth and have moved it. Now who knows where they think it is, maybe somewhere out in space, but under the earth is no more unscriptural than any other place. Any torment in the grave [sheol] has to be read into this passage; The New International Version says, “And they go DOWN to the grave IN PEACE.” In Job 3:17-19 Job gives a picture of sheol – the grave with the wicked and the righteous at rest together that is nothing like today’s teaching of the soul or all being in Heaven or tormented in Hell. “
There the wicked cease from raging, 
 and there the weary are at rest. 
The prisoners are at ease together; 
they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. 
The small and the great are there, 
and the slave is free from his master.” They all sleep; Job would be out of his torment.
(4) Job 24:19 "Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the GRAVE [sheol-Hell] those which have sinned." All those who have sinned and are consumed by the grave just as heat consumes the snow is a far cry from torment in a Hell where we are told that those that have sinned are never consumed. Job just did not understand and needed Jonathan Edwards to tell him that those that sinned are not in the grave but are in Hell, a place of endless torment where they will never be consumed, that the heat of Hell will never consume them “as heat consumes the snow.”
(5) Psalms 31:17 "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 [sheol-Hell]." This is David asking God to let his enemies that were trying to kill him die. The translators knew David was not asking God not to let those in Hell cry out in pain as they were being tormented. He was asking for their end, not for them to be silent when they are being tormented in Hell. Most who believe in Hell believe that it will be anything but silent, but that there will be eternal yells in the pain there; those who believe in Hell teach that the wicked will be weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth, there is nothing silent about weeping and wailing. According to the view of the Hell that many believe in David would be asking God to torment many, but most of those who believe in eternal torment in Hell would condemn anyone who prayed in church for God to forever burn most in the hot fires of the Hell they believe in.
(6) (7) Psalms 49:14 "Like sheep they are lain in the GRAVE [sheol-Hell]; death shall feed on them" Also Hebrew dualism. Although this is speaking of the wicked, no one believes sheep will be tormented in Hell, therefore, the translators could not put them in Hell as they usually did with the wicked; sheep do go to sheol – the grave just as the dead of mankind and all animals, but not to a chamber under the earth where many believe all the dead go; if sheol was such a chamber this passage would put sheep and all living being in it. "And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the GRAVE [sheol-Hell].” No matter how much beauty a person may have when living, that beauty will consume in the grave. They will swell up and decay in the grave. Although this is speaking of the wicked, sheol was not translated Hell for the translators did not believe anyone will decay and be consumed in Hell; they believed an immortal soul is the part of a person that will always be the same, not consume or decay away with the swelling of the dead body, but they had to put both decaying bodies and sheep in sheol, but neither decaying bodies or sheep could be in sheol if it was a chamber or place (called by some “the place of the dead” or “the holding place of souls”) where God has all the souls of the dead are stored away. "And their form shall be for Sheol to consume, so that they have no habitation" [New American Standard Bible]. If they were in Hell they would have an eternal habitation and sheol could not consume a soul if it were immortal; “their form” is their bodies, which are consumed in sheol – the grave.
[4] BOTH THE GOOD AND BAD
IN THE GRAVE TOGETHER in 11 passages

The good and bad together in the grave in 9 passages
(1) 1 Samuel 2:6 "The lord kills and makes alive: he brings down to the GRAVE [sheol-Hell], and brings up." If they had translated this Hell, they would have the Lord brings up from Hell, but they believed no one could come out of Hell and have a second chance after they were in Hell, therefore, they did not use Hell. Coming out of Hell would completely upset their theology.
(2) Job 7:9 "As the cloud is consumed
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