"She'ol (/\u02C8\u0283i\u02D0o\u028Al/ SHEE-ohl or /\u02C8\u0283i\u02D0\u0259l/ SHEE-\u0259l; Hebrew \u05E9\u05B0\u05C1\u05D0\u05D5\u05B9\u05DC \u0160\u02BE\u00F4l), in the Hebrew Bible, is a place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from the Hebrew God.The inhabitants of Sheol are the \"shades\" (rephaim), entities without personality or strength."@en . . .