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Gehenna

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.

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Hell 76% connected

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

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Perdition 76% connected

Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.

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Pit 76% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Tartarus 92% connected

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punish…

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