About The Word Gehenna
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Gehenna
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What's The Definition Of Gehenna?
[n] a place where the wicked are punished after death
Synonyms | Synonyms for Gehenna: Tartarus Related Terms | Find terms related to Gehenna: See Also | Hell | infernal region | Inferno | nether region | perdition | the pit Gehenna In Webster's Dictionary \Ge*hen"na\ (g[-e]*h[e^]n"n[.a]), n. [L. Gehenna, Gr.
Ge`enna, Heb. G[=e] Hinn[=o]m.] (Jewish Hist.)
The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the
Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on
this account, was afterward regarded as a place of
abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the
city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent
pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is
transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black
Gehenna called, the type of Hell. --Milton.
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