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Definition of Gehenna
1. Noun. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
Exact synonyms: Tartarus
Generic synonyms: Hell, Infernal Region, Inferno, Nether Region, Perdition, Pit
Derivative terms: Tartarean
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.
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