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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the Biblical Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (gēhinnṓm, “the valley of Hinnom”), from גַּיְא (gáyʾ, “valley”) and הִנֹּם (hinnṓm, “Hinnom”). The Hinnom Valley was a valley on the southern border of Jerusalem where refuse and the bodies of people denied a proper burial were burned. According to tradition, child sacrifices also took place in this valley. In most usages, this is an allegorical reference to hell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡé.en.na/ → /ˈʝe.en.na/ → /ˈʝe.e.na/
Proper noun
γέεννᾰ • (géenna) f (genitive γεέννης); first declension
- Gehenna
- hell
70 CE – 110 CE,
The Gospel of Matthew 23:33:
- ὄφεις! γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν! πῶς φύγητε ἀπὸ τῆς κρίσεως τῆς γεέννης?
- ópheis! gennḗmata ekhidnôn! pôs phúgēte apò tês kríseōs tês geénnēs?
- Snakes! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of Hell?
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “γέεννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γέεννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γέεννα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γέεννα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1067 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Noun
γέεννα • (géenna) f (uncountable)
- hell, gehenna (one of various hells in Abrahamic religions)
Declension
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Synonyms