First of all he wasn't dead because Ecclesiastes 9:5 says the dead know nothing at all..Second hell is the grave not a burning place..Is hell a hot place? Do sheolʹ and hádes refer to some place where the wicked suffer after death? It is plain that they do not, for we have already seen that the dead are not conscious and therefore cannot suffer. The Bible does not contradict itself with regard to the condition of those in hell. This is proved by the fact that the Bible says that Jesus was in hell. (Acts 2:31, AV, Dy) When the apostle Peter stated this on the day of Pentecost, he clearly meant that Jesus had been in the grave, not in a place of fiery torment. (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) In saying this the apostle quoted from Psalm 16:10 [15:10, Dy]. Here the Hebrew word sheolʹ was used, and at Acts 2:31 this word is translated by the Greek word hádes. This shows that sheolʹ and hádes refer to the same thing. The Bible “hell” is actually mankind’s grave.