Gehenna

//ɡəˈhɛ.nə//

Synonyms for "gehenna" (20 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Strong matches (6)

Related words (10)

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Antonyms

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Synonyms

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is a

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related to

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Translations

52 translations across 31 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • γέεννα name (where the wicked go)
  • γέεννα name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Arabic

2 entries
  • الهَاوِيَة name (where the wicked go)
  • جَهَنَّم name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Aramaic

2 entries
  • ܓܝܗܢܐ name (where the wicked go)
  • ܓܝܗܢܐ name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Armenian

2 entries
  • գեհեն name (where the wicked go)
  • գեհեն name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • гее́на name (where the wicked go)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • гее́на name (where the wicked go)

Catalan

1 entries
  • Gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 地獄 /地狱 name (where the wicked go)
  • 革哈納 /革哈纳 name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Czech

2 entries
  • Gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)
  • džehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Dutch

1 entries
  • gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Finnish

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  • Gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

French

2 entries
  • Géhenne name (where the wicked go)
  • Géhenne name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

German

1 entries
  • Gehinnom name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Greek

2 entries
  • γέεννα name (where the wicked go)
  • γέεννα name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Hebrew

3 entries
  • גיא בן הנם name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)
  • גיהנום name (where the wicked go)
  • גיהנום name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Hindi

4 entries
  • जहन्नम name (where the wicked go)
  • जहन्नम name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)
  • जहन्नुम name (where the wicked go)
  • जहन्नुम name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • gyehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Italian

1 entries
  • Geenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Japanese

3 entries
  • ゲヘナ name (where the wicked go)
  • ゲヘナ name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)
  • 地獄 name (where the wicked go)

Malay

1 entries
  • Gehena name (where the wicked go)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • Gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Polish

1 entries
  • gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • Geena name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Romanian

2 entries
  • gheenă name (where the wicked go)
  • gheenă name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Russian

3 entries
  • гее́нна name (where the wicked go)
  • гее́нна name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)
  • гее́нна о́гненная name (where the wicked go)

Spanish

1 entries
  • Gehena name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Swahili

2 entries
  • jahanamu name (where the wicked go)
  • jahanamu name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Swedish

2 entries
  • Gehenna name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)
  • gehenna name (where the wicked go)

Turkish

1 entries
  • cehennem name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • Jähennem name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • геє́на name (where the wicked go)
  • геє́нна name (hell, in Abrahamic religions)

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.

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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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