Meaning of gehenna | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.
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3. Hell.
4. A place of suffering and misery.
5. The valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.

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Examples

“When I next took an interest in things I found myself lying in the road. The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.”

“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?”

“School was Gehenna for the restless student.”

“The people obeyed his commandment, and succeeding ages followed the example, and Gehenna became the general sink of the city, and the receptacle of all its pollutions.”

“By the fifth century C.E., however, confusion about the tradition led to transference of the reputed site of Gehenna to the Kidron Valley, on the eastern side of Jerusalem.”

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