Why is the word 'Hades' in the Bible?

Answer 1

It is!? That's so awesome! One more sign that the bible is made from recycled material.

Answer 2

Great question. It comes up in the new testament, once used by Jesus in Matthew and then 4 times in Revelations. And yes, it is in the regular NIV, which may have some ambiguitites, but this is not one of them.

In Revelation 6:8, John refers to seeing horses and seated on them was "Death and Hades was following close behind him." Death and Hades are referred to as actual beings here, much like the Grim Reaper. There are many other traditions in Catholicism about an "Angel of Death," and Hades fits right along with that.

Revelation is a vision of the end times, and much of the book is symbolic. I really don't know if John means there is literally a keeper of the gates of the afterlife (and Death is a being that takes you there) and he is named Hades, but I tend to believe that it is symbolic.

As someone else mentioned earlier, when it is referred to in Matthew 16:18, it is used by Jesus as a word for death The premise of what Jesus was saying in the passage was that He was going to build a church, and even the gates of Hades (death), would not overcome it, because He would rise from the dead.

It was a common use of the word at that time. It doesn't mean there is any Roman or Greek mythology that is being incorporated.

Answer 3

The bible was originally written in two different languages, Hebrew-Aramaic (Genesis-Malachi) and Greek (Matthew-Revelation).

Some bibletranslations uses the greek word 'Hades'. The same word in Hebrew is 'Sheol'.

Other bibletranslations use the word 'grave' or 'hell'.

This is not a place of eternal tornment, as many religions teach. Hades or Sheol is simply a name for the common grave for mankind.

When people die (go to Hades or Sheol) they are no longer conscious. (Ecc 9:5,10)

Answer 4

Hades is the common transliteration into English of the corresponding Greek word haides.It perhaps means the "unseen place."In all,the word "Hades",occurs ten times in the earliest manuscripts of the Christian Greek Scriptures.
The King James Version translates haides as "hell",in these texts,but the Revised Standard Version renders it "hades".In all but two cases in which the word Hades is used in the Christian Greek Scriptures,it is related to death,either in the verse itself or in the immediate context.Hades does not refer to a single grave.(Gr.;taphos),or to a single tomb (Gr.;mnema),or to a single memorial tomb(Gr.;mnemeion),but to the common grave of mankind,where the dead and buried ones are unseen.

Answer 5

The word 'hades' is for the Greek underworld of the dead. It isn't exactly the same as hell, because hell is supposed to be a place of torture, whereas hades is not. It's simply another place, neither overwhelmingly positive or negative.

Christianity evolved from prior mythologies, including Greek mythology. The more explicit Christian understanding of hell was really advanced by Dante's Inferno.

Answer 6

If you have the right Bible "hades" is not in the Bible. Hell is the English word for a place of torment. Hell is the place you go if you reject what the Lord Jesus Christ did for you on the cross. He died for your sins. Believe and trust in that and heaven will be your home. Matthew 23: 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Answer 7

Hades is the brother of Zeus. He is the Greek God of Tartarus. He was added to the bible. Hades is not a place. He is a person

Answer 8

The editors were tired of everybody using the cuss word Hell.

Answer 9

It means the common grave of man kind and not a place of firey torment.

Answer 10

It was a word to represent the underworld or Hell.

Blessed Be