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‖ gehenna|gɪˈhɛnə|
[a. Eccl. Lat. gehenna, a. Hellenistic Gr. γέεννα, rendered ‘hell’ in the Eng. N.T. (also γέεννα τοῦ πυρός ‘gehenna of fire’, rendered ‘hell fire’). In med.L. the word was used transf. for judicial torture: cf. gehenne.
The Gr. γέεννα was ad. post-Biblical Heb. gēihinnōm hell, place of fiery torment for the dead (whence Arab. jahannam), a figurative use of the place-name which occurs also in the fuller form gēi ben Hinnōm, ‘the valley of the son of Hinnom’, denoting a place near Jerusalem where, according to Jer. xix. 5, etc., children were burnt in sacrifice to Baal or Molech. Cf. Tophet.]
1. The place of future torment; hell.
1623Cockeram, Gehenna, Hell. 1627Hakewill Apol. iv. i. §5. 281 A valley shadowed with wood, called Gehinnon [sic] or Tophet, from whence is the word Gehenna vsed for hell. [1667Milton P.L. i. 405 [Moloch] made his Grove The pleasant Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd, the Type of Hell. ]1854Motley Corr. (1889) I. vi. 166 The groans which occasionally ascended seemed as from a Gehenna. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 63 Making their proselytes ten-times-worse children of Gehenna than themselves. 1883Punch 8 Sept. 119/1 A Gehenna of flaring gas-flames and a howling warder stop the way again.
2. transf. A place of torture; a prison.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. 1883–4 V. 131, I [a Spaniard] winning haue the crownes, he losing is carried to the galleys. This is our custome, which a hundred times and more hath paid mee custome of crownes, when the poore fellowes haue gone to Gehenna, [and] had course bread and whipping chere all their life after. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 195 They had neither bin hal'd into your Gehenna at Lambeth, nor strappedo'd with an Oath Ex Officio by your bow men of the Arches.
Hence † geˈhennical a., belonging to gehenna.
1599Broughton's Lett. v. 18 As by his genealogicall glosses he hath abused βιβλὸν γενέσεως, so by his gehennicall cursings he might set on fire τροχὸν γενέσεως [cf. Jam. iii. 6]. |