gehenna

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for gehenna

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gehenna : වධබන්ධන සහිත ස්ථානය

gehenna : නරකාදිය

gehenna definition

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 effluviAdjective. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.