Gehenna

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

Related Words

gehenna
gĕhenna, ae, f., = γέεννα (Hebrew, Ge-Hinnom, Ge-Ben-Hinnom), a valley near Jerusalem where children...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Gehenna
(originally Ge bene Hinnom; i.e., "the valley of the sons of Hinnom"), a deep, narrow glen to the so...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Gehenna
[Hinnom] ...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary