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2 days ago · Gehenna is a Greek word for Hell in the New Testament. It refers not just to the state of death but to a terrible place of punishment. The word originates from a real location on Earth — a valley beside the old city of Jerusalem. According to the Bible, during its history, it was used as a place of idol worship and child sacrifice.
Jan 23, 2018 · The purpose of this paper is to examine the origin, history and development of Gehenna from the Old Testament (OT) to New Testament (NT), comparing the external evidence seen in the historical rabbinical ideas of Gehenna with the internal evidence seen in exclusively biblical development.
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Some Christian scholars, however, have suggested that Gehenna may not be synonymous with the lake of fire, but a prophetic metaphor for the horrible fate that awaited the many civilians killed in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Apr 22, 2024 · Gehenna comes from the Hebrew phrase gey’-hinnom, a valley where Israel’s kings sacrificed children in fire to other gods. The prophets said these fires would turn back on the kings. And Jesus uses this image to describe God’s response to evil.
Gehenna, abode of the damned in the afterlife in Jewish and Christian eschatology (the doctrine of last things). Named in the New Testament in Greek form (from the Hebrew Ge Hinnom, meaning “valley of Hinnom”), Gehenna originally was a valley west and south of Jerusalem where children were burned.
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The realm or place of the dead is the grave where our bodies end up, but the realm of disembodied souls is where our soul ends up without our physical bodies. In the account of the Rich man and Lazarus, we find Jesus using the other word for hell, which is Hades, Luke 16:19-31.
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The fire of Gehenna does not touch the Jewish sinners because they confess their sins before the gates of hell and return to God ('Er. 19a). As mentioned above, heretics and the Roman oppressors go to Gehenna, and the same fate awaits the Persians, the oppressors of the Babylonian Jews (Ber. 8b).
