hell
Sheol is, in the Old Testament, the place to which the dead go.
(1) Often, therefore, it is spoken of as the equivalent of the grave, merely, where all human activities cease; the terminus toward which all human life moves (for example (Genesis 42:38) grave (Job 14:13) grave (Psalms 88:3) grave
(2) To the man "under the sun," the natural man, who of necessity judges from appearances, sheol seems no more than the grave -- the end and total cessation, not only of the activities of life, but of life itself. (Ecclesiastes 9:5); (Ecclesiastes 9:10).
(3) But Scripture reveals sheol as a place of sorrow (2 Samuel 22:6); (Psalms 18:5); (Psalms 18:116); (Psalms 18:3); in which the wicked are turned (Psalms 9:17) and where they are fully conscious; (Isaiah 14:9-17); (Ezekiel 32:21) see, especially, (Jonah 2:2) what the belly of the great fish was to Jonah that sheol is to those who are therein). The sheol of the Old Testament and hades of the New Testament
( See Scofield) - (Luke 16:23)
are identical.