Definition for GE-HEN'NA

GE-HEN'NA, n. [Gr. γεεννα, from the Heb. ge-hinom, the valley of Hinom, in which was Tophet, where the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch. 2 Kings xxiii. 10.]

This word has been used by the Jews as equivalent to hell, place of fire or torment and punishment, and the Greek word is rendered by our translators by hell and hell-fire. Matth. xviii. 9; xxiii. 15.

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