Gehenna

  1. Proper noun.  In Judaism and the New Testament the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death.
  2. Noun.  one of various hells in Abrahamic religions, being the hell into which sinners are cast after judgment for eternal suffering.
  3. Noun.  depending on interpretation of religious texts, one of various names for just one hell.
  4. Noun.  a place of suffering and misery.

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