gehenna

plural gehennas

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.

   When I next took an interest in things I found myself lying in the road. The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 59

1. 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.

   Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?

   Matthew 23:33

   Synonyms: Gehenom, Gehennom, Gehinom, Gehinnom, Jahannam

2. Hell.
3. A place of suffering and misery.

   School was Gehenna for the restless student.

4. The valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.

   The people obeyed his commandment, and succeeding ages followed the example, and Gehenna became the general sink of the city, and the receptacle of all its pollutions.

   1833, Selumiel, or a visit to Jerusalem, etc, page 185

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   By the fifth century C.E., however, confusion about the tradition led to transference of the reputed site of Gehenna to the Kidron Valley, on the eastern side of Jerusalem.

   1991, Bible Review