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

Meaning of "Gehenna" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GEHENNA

From Late Latin, from Greek Geena, from Hebrew Gê' Hinnōm, literally: valley of Hinnom, symbolic of hell.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GEHENNA

Gehenna  [ɡɪˈhɛnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GEHENNA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gehenna is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GEHENNA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Gehenna

Gehenna, Gehinnom and Yiddish Gehinnam, are terms derived from a place outside ancient Jerusalem known in the Hebrew Bible as the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; one of the two principal valleys surrounding the Old City. In the Hebrew Bible, the site was initially where apostate Israelites and followers of various Ba'als and Caananite gods, including Moloch, sacrificed their children by fire. Thereafter it was deemed to be cursed. In Jewish, Christian and Islamic scripture, Gehenna is a destination of the wicked. This is different from the more neutral Sheol/Hades, the abode of the dead, though the King James version of the Bible translates both with the Anglo-Saxon word Hell.

Definition of Gehenna in the English dictionary

The first definition of Gehenna in the dictionary is the valley below Jerusalem, where children were sacrificed and where idolatry was practised and where later offal and refuse were slowly burned. Other definition of Gehenna is a place where the wicked are punished after death. Gehenna is also a place or state of pain and torment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GEHENNA


antenna
ænˈtɛnə
Avicenna
ˌævɪˈsɛnə
Cervena
ˌsɜːˈvɛnə
countertenor
ˌkaʊntəˈtɛnə
duenna
djuːˈɛnə
henna
ˈhɛnə
Jenner
ˈdʒɛnə
kenner
ˈkɛnə
McKenna
məˈkɛnə
penna
ˈpɛnə
penner
ˈpɛnə
plena
ˈplɛnə
Ravenna
rəˈvɛnə
senna
ˈsɛnə
Siena
sɪˈɛnə
sienna
sɪˈɛnə
tenner
ˈtɛnə
tenor
ˈtɛnə
transenna
trænˈsɛnə
Vienna
vɪˈɛnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GEHENNA

Geelong
geep
geepound
geese
geest
geezah
geezer
geezer girl
gefilte fish
gegenschein
geggie
gehlenite
Gehry
Geiger
Geiger counter
Geikie
geisha
Geissler tube

WORDS THAT END LIKE GEHENNA

Alexandrian senna
Arabian senna
beam antenna
bladder senna
burnt sienna
communal antenna
Congress of Vienna
dish antenna
horn antenna
raw sienna
slot antenna

Synonyms and antonyms of Gehenna in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Gehenna» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GEHENNA

Find out the translation of Gehenna to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Gehenna from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Gehenna» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

地狱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Gehena
570 millions of speakers

English

Gehenna
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दोज़ख़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جهنم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Геенна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Geena
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Géhenne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gehenna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gehenna
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

地獄
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

게헨나
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gehenna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Gehenna
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நரகத்திலும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गेहेना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cehennem
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Gehenna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Gehenna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

геєна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Gheena
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Gehenna
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Gehenna
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Gehenna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Gehenna
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Gehenna

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GEHENNA»

The term «Gehenna» is regularly used and occupies the 72.919 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GEHENNA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Gehenna» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Gehenna» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Gehenna

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QUOTES WITH «GEHENNA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Gehenna.
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Rudyard Kipling
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GEHENNA»

Discover the use of Gehenna in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Gehenna and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vampire: The Time of Judgment Trilogy, Part 1: Gehenna, the ...
A Vampire: the Masquerade novel featuring the official end of the World of Darkness.
Ari Marmell, 2004
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Gehenna: A Novel
Brace yourself for a frightening, thought-provoking, guided tour of hell in this modern-day adaptation of Dante’s Inferno.
Thomas Paul Thigpen, Paul Thigpen, 1992
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Forty Thousand in Gehenna
When the colonists on Gehenna are abandoned for political reasons and supply ships fail to arrive, the colony begins to collapse until the colonists join forces with the planet's native reptillian calibans to survive
C. J. Cherryh, 1984
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Gehenna Inc
Digging a hole to the lava core of the earth would produce a lot of power-a lot more than bargained for, perhaps!
Berkeley Livingston, 2010
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Tree of Souls : The Mythology of Judaism: The Mythology of ...
THE CREATION OF GEHENNA Gehenna, the place of punishment, was one of the seven things created before the Creation, but for a long time it was nothing more than a great void. Then, at the time that God separated Himself from Adam ...
St. Louis Howard Schwartz Professor of English University of Missouri, 2004
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Gehenna Highway:
Loehs Point, Sedah City and Anneheg reversed areSheol, Hades, and Gehenna! Theyall mean thesame thing... Hell! Archer'sfirst name isNeimad. Reverse the spelling andyou get “Damien”, son ofthe Devil! His father, “Natas” is really Satan!
Kenneth L. Faulkner, 2013
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Mercer Dictionary of the Bible
GEHENNA GENEALOGY IN THE OT GENERATION GENRE IN THE OT GENRE,. GEDALIAH GENEALOGY IN THE NT life. Evidently, he shared many common values and religious loyalties with him. Through jehoiakim"s and Zedekiah's reign ...
Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard, 1990
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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism
Gehenna/Gehinnom wall of the temple platform. There is another passageway next to it known as the gate of repentance. At the end of time, angels will finally open them both. Another tradition teaches that the original gate of Solomon's ...
Geoffrey W. Dennis, 2007
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Ultimate Journey: Death and Dying in the World's Major ...
GEHENNA The intent of Gehenna, Purgatory, is not for punishment alone. In the Zohar, it becomes clear that the purpose of Gehenna is for refinement and purification of the soul from the dross of sin and physicality, making it possible for the ...
STEVEN ROSEN, 2008
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Answers to Your Bible Version Questions
QUESTION Gehenna is not hell, is it? It was a valley where outcasts, thieves and infected people were thrown when they died. The Bible refers to Gehenna as the place of death and pain. The word “hell”, as you so often use, where eternal ...
David W. Daniels, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GEHENNA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Gehenna is used in the context of the following news items.
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Go Set a Watchman's first chapter, first review: a beguiling journey …
There are indeed people stuck there in the Gehenna mentioned ... they are sacrificing their children by the fire ripped off by computerland - if ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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'The Talos Principle' Gets 'Road to Gehenna' Expansion Pack on …
In the "Road to Gehenna," the player returns as Uriel, Elohim's messenger who attempts to free trapped souls in a "hidden part of the simulation ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
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Courage under persecution
... cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? «Tempo, Jul 15»
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The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna Expansion Announced
By Luke KarmaliDevolver Digital has announced an expansion for The Talos Principle, called Road to Gehenna, will launch on July 23. «IGN, Jul 15»
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Opinionator | Metrosophy: Philosophy and the City
... continued Rousseau's legacy by treating the countryside as the Eden that would save humanity from the Gehenna of urban existence. «New York Times, Jul 15»
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A La Carte TV Service Gains Momentum
There will be icycles in Gehenna before I'll partake in a business who's commercials insult me. On the other hand make a commercial that has ... «MediaPost Communications, Jun 15»
7
“KILLER” POLICE CONCEPTS OF DEATH (8)
Belief III, if Belief I is not carried out, one goes to Hell, like the Jewish Gehenna—a great refuse-heap of ever smoldering fire. Belief IV: If one ... «Black Voice News, Jun 15»
8
The Mercy of Hell
But Jesus' word for hell is Gehenna: an actual physical place just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. It was not a cavernous hole deep in the ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
9
Post-mortem -- The loss of Irish pride
"Erin Go Braugh" was cast into Gehenna at the ballot box by the Irish people on May 22, 2015. They removed the cornerstone of their great ... «RenewAmerica, Jun 15»
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Street Fighter 5 is never coming to Xbox One, says Capcom
The Talos Principle players will travel the Road to Gehenna later this month · GTA Online: Custom Jobs for Los Santos International, Fort ... «VG247, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Gehenna [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gehenna>. Apr 2024 ».
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