Gehenna

[ɡi'henə]

Definition

(noun.) a place where the wicked are punished after death.

Checked by Bryant--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checker: Michelle

Definition

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.

Edited by Bridget