Definition of "gehenna" [gehenna]

• One of various hells in Abrahamic religions, being the hell into which sinners are cast after judgment for eternal suffering (noun)
• Depending on interpretation of religious texts, one of various names for just one hell (noun)
• A place of suffering and misery (noun)

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• "Jesus 'uses of the term gehenna warn of the danger of hell fire (Matt. 5: 22) and the relative insignificance of losing a bodily part (and going to heaven) in comparison to remaining whole but being wholly lost (Matt."
• "My guess is that when priests first preached Christianity to the English they needed an Old English word to translate "gehenna" or "hades", asked the interpreter what his people called the bad place you go to after you die, and were told it was called "helle", after which the word became the standard term."
• "Upon his arrival, by a somewhat ominous conjuncture, he had supped with some of the leading citizens in the hall of the "gehenna" or torture room, certainly not a locality calculated to inspire a healthy appetite."