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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell" (Psalm 16:10) sounds like a promise about escaping the fiery place of eternal torment.
KJV "hell" here translates Sheol, the shadowy realm of the dead where everyone went, not the place of eternal fiery punishment.
Psalm 16:10, in every translation this tool compares.
The KJV uses "hell" as a catch-all for several different words: Hebrew Sheol, and Greek Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus. Sheol and Hades both simply mean the grave or the shadowy abode of the dead in general, righteous and unrighteous alike, not a place of torment.
This verse is quoted directly in Acts 2:27, applied to Christ's resurrection: God would not abandon him to death and decay. Modern translations render it "Sheol" or "the grave" precisely because "hell" now carries the anachronistic image of eternal damnation that the original word didn't have.
