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gehenna
/ɡəˈhɛ.nə/
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What does gehenna mean?
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.
proper noun
- In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.
- Hell.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A place of suffering and misery.
- The valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.
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A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt.
But God bade each drop pass through Gehenna before it fell to earth, and the hot rain scalded the skin of the sinners.
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"I have told both parties to go to Gehenna," says my Italian friend.
O gracious love of books, which by the grace of baptism transformed the child of Gehenna and nursling of Tartarus into a Son of the Kingdom!
His reference to the great games of which I had heard so much while among the Tharks convinced me that I had but jumped from purgatory into gehenna.