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Gehenna
GehennaOne of the words in the Christian New Testament for hell, the place of destruction. The word is derived from the Hebrew ge and hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom—originally a valley in Palestine where the Hebrews passed their children through the fire to Moloch, the god of the Ammonites (1 Kings 11; 2 Kings 23:10). Gehenna was popularly regarded as a place of destruction to which the wicked were consigned when they died (Matt. 18:7-8). Gehenna is usually translated as "hell fire" in the New Testament (Mark 9:43; Luke 12:5). Over the centuries it was merged with other terms for the abode of the dead, and through the writings of novelists such as Dante and John Milton the Christian world was given a description of hell as a place of unutterable anguish, horror, and despair. The locality of hell and the duration of its torments have for centuries been the subject of much speculation. Some imagined there was a purgatorial region—a kind of upper Gehenna "in which the souls of just men are cleansed by a temporary punishment" before being admitted to heaven. It was believed that during this period the soul could revisit the places and persons it had loved. The Persians understood Gehenna as the place inhabited by the divs (rebellious angels), to which the rebels were confined when they refused to bow down before the first man. |
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"Gehenna." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gehenna." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403801883.html "Gehenna." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403801883.html |
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Gehenna
Gehenna A valley outside Jerusalem through which the road to Bethlehem runs. Children were once sacrificed there to the god Molech (Jer. 7: 31), and later there was a continuously burning dump. Hence it came to be an image for hell (Hades), a place of condemnation and extinction of the wicked (Matt. 18: 8 f. NRSV marg.).
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W. R. F. BROWNING. "Gehenna." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. W. R. F. BROWNING. "Gehenna." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-Gehenna.html W. R. F. BROWNING. "Gehenna." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-Gehenna.html |
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Gehenna
Gehenna. A valley outside Jerusalem. From early times it was a place of human sacrifice and in later Jewish thought it was regarded as a Divinely appointed place of punishment for apostates and other great sinners. Hence in NT times the word is used for the final place of torment for the wicked after the Last Judgement.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Gehenna." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Gehenna." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Gehenna.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Gehenna." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Gehenna.html |
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Gehenna
Gehenna in Judaism and the New Testament, hell. The name comes via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek geenna, from Hebrew gē' hinnōm ‘hell’, literally ‘valley of Hinnom’, a place near Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to Baal, as in Jeremiah 19:6.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Gehenna." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Gehenna." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Gehenna.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Gehenna." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Gehenna.html |
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Gehenna
Gehenna, Gehinnom (Heb., Valley of Hinnom). A valley south of Jerusalem, used as a waste tip. It became a place where the wicked are abandoned with none to remember them, and where they are tormented after death. Gehenna is the Gk. form of the name.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Gehenna." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Gehenna." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Gehenna.html JOHN BOWKER. "Gehenna." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Gehenna.html |
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Gehenna
Gehenna : see hell . |
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"Gehenna." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gehenna." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-Gehenna.html "Gehenna." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-Gehenna.html |
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