Gehenna

/ɡəˈhɛ.nə/

Synonyms for "gehenna" (20 found)

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Closest matches (4)

abaddonabyssbottomless pit
Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (6)

Noun(4 words)
hellinfernal imageryinfernomoral abyss

Related words (10)

Noun(6 words)
place of punishmenttartarusthe hinnom valleythe pitunderworldvalley of hinnom

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

4 relation types

More general

14 entries
HellInfernoafterlife conceptfigurative expressiongeographic locationinfernal regionmetaphornether regionperditionpitplacerealmsymboltopographic feature

More specific

6 entries
Hinnom Valleyapocalyptic imagerydoom imageryeternal firefiery pithellfire

Collocations

6 entries
Gehenna fireGehenna imageryGehenna metaphoreternal punishment Gehennago to Gehennavalley of Hinnom

Inflections

1 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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When I next took an interest in things I found myself lying in the road. The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.

Source: wiktionary

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?

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School was Gehenna for the restless student.

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The people obeyed his commandment, and succeeding ages followed the example, and Gehenna became the general sink of the city, and the receptacle of all its pollutions.

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