This word has been used by the Jews as equivalent to hell, place of fire or torment and punishment, and the Greek word is rendered by our translators by hell and hell-fire. Matthew 18:9 . 23.15.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
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.
Hell Roget’s Thesaurus §982
N. hell, bottomless pit, place of torment, habitation # of fallen angels, pandemonium, abaddon, domdaniel, jahannan, sheol, hell fire, everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation, lake of fire and brimstone, fire that is never quenched, worm that never dies, purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss, tartarus, hades, avernus, styx, stygian creek, pit of acheron, cocytus, infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of pluto, pluto, rhadamanthus, erebus, tophet
Phr. dies irae dies illa, "the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night", 2, religious doctrines
No Bible verses found for "Gehenna".