Definition of gehenna Gehenna
Ge•hen•na
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What does gehenna mean?
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| gehenna - a place where the wicked are punished after death | ||
| Tartarus | ||
| nether region, perdition, infernal region, inferno, hell, pit noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- gehenna (Noun)
One of various hells in Abrahamic religions, being the hell into which sinners are cast after judgment for eternal suffering. - gehenna (Noun)
Depending on interpretation of religious texts, one of various names for just one hell. - gehenna (Noun)
A place of suffering and misery.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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 transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gehenna
ge-hen′a, n. the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, in which the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, and to which, at a later time, the refuse of the city was conveyed to be slowly burned—hence (N.T.) hell. [L.,—Heb. Ge, valley of, and Hinnom.]
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🔤- gehenna, noun, singular of gehennas.
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