Genesis 37:35

35. His daughters “His sons’ wives, or possibly he may have had daughters besides Dinah, which are not mentioned by name . ‘And he said, (I will not be comforted,) for I will go down to my son, mourning, to Sheol . ’ This is the first place in which the word Sheol occurs, which means the place or state of the dead . It is derived by Gesenius from a word meaning to dig, that is, the grave, but has been usually derived from a verb meaning to ask, or demand, the craving grave . Lewis, however, understands the word to express the inquiring wonder with which we ask for the dead, the eager listening at the gates of death . So the Greek word Hades, the unseen, (Sept . translation of Sheol,) sets forth the same world as sealed to the sense of sight. ‘In the one, it is the eye peering into the dark; in the other it is the ear intently listening to the silence. Both give rise to the same question, Where is he? whither has he gone? and both seem to imply with equal emphasis that the one unseen and unheard yet really is.’ Jacob did not expect that his body would lie with Joseph’s in the same grave, for he thought that an ‘evil beast had devoured him,’ yet he expected to go to his son.” Newhall.