Gehenna
pronunciation
How to pronounce Gehenna in British English:
UK [ɡiˈhenə]
How to pronounce Gehenna in American English:
US [ɡɪˈhɛnə]
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- Noun:
- a place where the wicked are punished after death
Word Origin
- gehenna (n.)
- "hell," 1620s (earlier "a place of torture," 1590s), from Church Latin gehenna (Tertullian), from Greek geenna, from post-biblical Hebrew gehinnom "Hell, place of fiery torment for the dead," figurative use of the place name Ge Hinnom "the Valley of Hinnom," southwest of Jerusalem, where, according to Jer. xix:5, children were sacrificed to Moloch. Middle English had gehenne (late 15c.) from Middle French gehenne.
Example
- 1. Gehenna is the place of punishment of hades .
- 2. Serpents ! Brood of vipers ! How shall you escape the judgment of gehenna ?
- 3. Christ ...... this poor man of gehenna .
- 4. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of god with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into gehenna .
- 5. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into gehenna .