Gehenna

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Gehenna /gəˈhɛnə/

▶noun a name for hell.

– origin via eccles. L. from Gk geenna, from Heb. gē' hinnōm ‘hell’, lit. ‘valley of Hinnom’, a place near Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to Baal.

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