Gehenna

• WordNet 3.6
  • n Gehenna a place where the wicked are punished after death
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• • prop. n Gehenna (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 Gehenna called, the type of Hell."
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• • n Gehenna In Jewish hist., the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, in which was Tophet, where the Israelites once sacrificed their children to Moloch (2 Ki. xxiii. 10). Hence the place was after-ward regarded as a place of abomination; into it was thrown the refuse of the city, and, according to some authorities, fires were kept burning in it to prevent pestilence.
  • n Gehenna In the Bible, the place of the future punishment of the wicked: a transliteration of the Greek word γέεννα, which the authorized version translates hell and hell-fire, and the revised version hell of fire and hell.
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• • n Gehenna ge-hen′a 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.
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