gehenna
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1. gehenna - Noun
2. Gehenna - Proper noun
Meaning
The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
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Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.
At night riding Gehenna, the respectable Dr. Syn became "The Scarecrow", the feared head of the smugglers.
Judaism does not believe in the Christian concept of hell but does have a punishment stage in the afterlife (i.e. Gehenna, the New Testament word translated as hell) as well as a Heaven ( Gan Eden ), but the religion does not intend it as a focus.
The name "Gehenna" itself is explained to mean that unchastity will lead to Gehenna (; 'Er. 19a); so also will adultery, idolatry, pride, mockery, hypocrisy, anger, etc. (Soṭah 4b, 41b; Ta'an. 5a; B. B. 10b, 78b; 'Ab.
It’s a large, powerful machine, I know that, but I am doing my part to respectfully tell ‘it’ to go to Gehenna.
No, What do you say when people talk about how reading, books, literature, etc., are crossing to Gehenna with the ferryman?