Gehenna

Gehenna

:"for the Polish film see Gehenna (film)""Gehennam" (or gehenom or gehinom (גהינום)) is the Jewish hell or purgatory. In English, Jews commonly use the term "hell" in place of "gehenna." The name derived from the burning garbage dump near Jerusalem (the Hinnom gulch), metaphorically identified with the entrance to the underworld of punishment in the afterlife.

Gehenna also appears in the New Testament and in early Christian writing to represent the place where evil will be destroyed. It lends its name to Islam's hell, Jahannam. In both Rabbinical Jewish and Christian writing, Gehenna as a destination of the wicked is different from Sheol, the abode of all the dead.

Etymology

"Gehenna" is derived from "Ge Hinnom," meaning "Valley of Hinnom." "GeHinnom" is also called "Gai ben-Hinnom," meaning "valley of Hinnom's son."

The valley is outside the south wall of ancient Jerusalem, and stretches from the foot of Mount Zion eastward to Kidron Valley.　It is mentioned 13 times in 11 different verses in the Bible (King James Version) as "valley of Hinnom," "valley of the son of Hinnom" or "valley of the children of Hinnom."

It is not described as a spiritual hell but a literal valley in Jerusalem (Joshua 15:8, Joshua 18:16, 2nd Kings 23:10, 2 Chronicles 28:3, 2nd Chronicles 33:6,Nehemiah 11:30, Jeremiah 7:31~32, Jeremiah 19:2, Jeremiah 19:6, Jeremiah 32:35) After 638 B.C. ), which many Christians today interpret as meaning the same thing as gehenna.

ee also

*Hell
*Hell in Christian beliefs
*Spirit prison
*Outer darkness

References

External links and references

* [http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/hinnom.htm Daily Bible Study page on the Valley of Hinnom]
* [http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/H/Hinnom.asp Encyclopedia.com on Gehenna]
* [http://www.bartleby.com/65/hi/Hinnom.html Columbia Encyclopedia on the Valley of Hinnom]
* [http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/H/Hinnom.html Biblical Proper Names on the Valley of Hinnom]
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=115&letter=G Gehenna] from the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
* [http://www.chabad.org/k9562 The Jewish view of Hell] on chabad.org
* [http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/jesusteachingonhell.html A Christian Universalist perspective] from Tentmaker.org


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