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Webster 1913 Edition
Gehenna
Ge-hen′na
(gē̍-hĕn′nȧ)
, p
rop.
Noun.
[L.
Gehenna
, Gr. Γέεννα
, Heb. Gē Hinnōm
.] (Jewish Hist.)
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
. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence
And black
And black
Gehenna
called, the type of Hell. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gehenna
GEHEN'NA
,Noun.
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. Matt.18.9. 23.15.