Look up: gehenna

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   Gehenna
   [n] - a place where the wicked are punished after death
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   Gehenna
   Another name for hell; in the Old Testament, a valley south of Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to the Phoenician god Moloch and fires burned constantly. ...
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   Gehenna
   Ge·hen'na (ge*hĕn'nȧ) noun [ Latin Gehenna , Greek Ge`enna , Hebrew Gē Hinnōm .] (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 ...
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   Gehenna
   Tartarus noun a place where the wicked are punished after death
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   Gehenna
   `Gehenna` (or gehenom or gehinom (×`×�ינו×�)) is the Jewish hell or purgatory. In Judaism hell is a place of purification and fire for the wicked, most being punished there up to a year but some for eternity. In English, Jews commonly use the term `hell` in place of `gehenna.` The name derived from the burning garbage dump near Jerusalem (the Hinnom gulch), metaphorically identified with the entrance to the underworld of punishment in the aft...
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   Gehenna
   • (n.) 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 ...
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   Gehenna
   abode of the damned in the afterlife in Jewish and Christian eschatology (the doctrine of last things). Named in the New Testament in Greek form ... [2 related articles]
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   gehenna
   gehenna Hell, the place of future fiery torment for the dead. The word comes from 'the Valley of Hinnom'; shortened from Ge Ben-Hinnom, 'the Valley of the Son of Hinnom', a valley South West, and South of Jerusalem, where children were burnt in sacrifice to Baal or Molech [Moloch]. It came to be regarded as a place of unquenchable fire, possibly from the f...
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   Gehenna
   Gehenna (gihen'u) : see hell.
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