Ge|hen|na

Ge|hen|na
Ge|hen|na «guh HEHN uh», noun.
1. the valley of Hinnom, southwest of Jerusalem. Because children had been sacrificed there to Moloch, it was defiled by Josiah and became a place where refuse was thrown and in which fires were kept burning to prevent pestilence (in the Bible, II Kings 23:10).
2. hell: »

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone (Rudyard Kipling).

3. Also, gehenna. a place of torment or misery: »

the “gehenna” or torture room [at Tournay] (John Lothrop Motley).

╂[< Latin Gehenna < Greek Géenna < Hebrew Gē Hinnōm, short for gē ben Hinnōm the valley of the son of Hinnom (see Jeremiah 19:6)]

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