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Definition of Gehenna
1. Noun. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
Generic synonyms: Hell, Infernal Region, Inferno, Nether Region, Perdition, Pit
Derivative terms: Tartarean
Definition of Gehenna
1. 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 transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
Definition of Gehenna
1. Proper noun. In Judaism and the New Testament the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death. ¹
2. Noun. one of various hells in Abrahamic religions, being the hell into which sinners are cast after judgment for eternal suffering ¹
3. Noun. depending on interpretation of religious texts, one of various names for just one hell ¹
4. Noun. a place of suffering and misery ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gehenna
Literary usage of Gehenna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plain Guide to Universalism: Designed to Lead Inquirers to the Belief of by Thomas Whittemore (1840)
"This gave occasion to connect fire with Gehenna, for perpetual fires were kept
... The metaphorical sense of Gehenna may be readily perceived in Jer. vii. ..."
2. The Teaching of Jesus about the Future According to the Synoptic Gospels by Henry Burton Sharman (1908)
"If it is correct to regard P § 20 as part of the final discourse on the future,
then the sayings about Gehenna belong to three of the longest groups of ..."
3. Life and Death Eternal: A Refutation of the Theory of Annihilation by Samuel Colcord Bartlett, American Tract Society (1866)
"Gehenna. After all that has been written upon the Greek word ... It was called '
the gehenna of fire;' and was the image which our Saviour often employed to ..."
4. The Bible doctrine of the soul by Charles Linnaeus Ives (1874)
"Gehenna—HELL. This is the Greek word, invariably and properly translated " hell.
... Our Saviour speaks of it in Matt. v: 22, xviii: 9, as the "Gehenna tou ..."
5. What is of Faith as to Everlasting Punishment: In Reply to Dr. Farrar's by Edward Bouverie Pusey, Frederic William Farrar (1881)
"The remaining place, in which our Lord uses the word Gehenna, is in His woes on
the Scribes and Pharisees, "°Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, ..."
6. Mercy and Judgment: A Few Last Words on Christian Eschatology, with by Frederic William Farrar (1881)
"One of the most important of these is what I called my "palmary argument,"—that
our word "hell" is used in the Gospel as the rendering for Gehenna; ..."
7. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Emanuel Vogel Gerhart (1894)
"1 Eschatology however dare not forget that the hopeless woe of gehenna is ...
Gehenna is not the decree of God, not the consequence of God's causative ..."
8. A Compend of Christian Divinity by Sylvanus Cobb (1849)
"But the word hell is sometimes rendered from another original term in the
Scriptures, viz., gehenna. Let it be distinctly observed, however, ..."
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