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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gehenna \Ge*hen"na\ (g[-e]*h[e^]n"n[.a]), prop. n. [L. Gehenna, Gr. Ge`enna, Heb. G[=e] Hinn[=o]m.] (Jewish Hist.) 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 effluvi
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In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hell," 1620s, from Church Latin, from Greek geenna, from post-biblical Hebrew gehinnom, "Hell, place of fiery torment for the dead," figurative use of the place name Ge Hinnom "the Valley of Hinnom," southwest of Jerusalem, where, according to Jer. xix.5, children were sacrificed to Moloch.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Gehenna English)
Wikipedia
In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Gehenna (in the current edition of the game, the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna; also, The Fourfold Furnaces or The Fires of Perdition), is a plane of existence of neutral evil/ lawful evil alignment. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape, Greyhawk and some editions of the Forgotten Realms campaign settings. It borders the Gray Waste of Hades and the Nine Hells of Baator.
In the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade by White Wolf, Inc., Gehenna is the vampires' prophesied armageddon. Gehenna (2004) was the final Vampire book published by White Wolf.
Gehenna is the time when the Antediluvians (the grandchildren of Caine, the first vampire) will rise to consume the blood of all the younger vampires and construct a city in which they will rule for one thousand years. The prophecy of Gehenna is most thoroughly detailed in the Book of Nod, the story of Caine's banishment and cursing by God. There are also portents found in the Book of Nod, claiming the coming of the "Dark Father" and the "Dark Mother". Who these are is uncertain, but it is believed these two figures could be the mythical Caine and Lilith, respectively. Gehenna is said to be preceded by the Time of Thin Blood, in which successive generations of vampires past the thirteenth lose the potency of their blood, become incapable of siring childer or exercising their vampiric powers, and even develop a tolerance to sunlight.
Four possible Gehenna scenarios were depicted in the final Vampire: The Masquerade sourcebook, which was titled Gehenna, as part of the Time of Judgment that ended the original World of Darkness. The four scenarios are:
- " Wormwood" (God destroys all vampires save for a few, who are given a chance at redemption)
- "Fair is Foul" (Lilith takes her vengeance on Caine and his descendants)
- "Nightshade" (the Masquerade is broken and the Camarilla divided as the Antediluvians awaken)
- "The Crucible of God" (the Antediluvians rise up, ruling over or destroying most of the human race)
Gehenna is the main article for use:
- In Judaism - a place of fiery judgment, named after the Hinnom valley outside of Jerusalem.
- In Christianity - one of two words translated " Hell" in the New Testament. The other word is Hades
- The Islamic equivalent is jahannam
Gehenna may also refer to:
- Hell in popular culture
In fiction:
- Gehenna (comics), girlfriend of DC Comics character Jason Rusch, the current Firestorm (comics)
- Gehenna (World of Darkness), the vampires' prophesied Armageddon in the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade
- Gehenna (Dungeons & Dragons), an Outer Plane of evil alignment in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
- Gehenna (Millennium), an episode of the TV series Millennium
- Gehenna, a fictional planet, the setting for C. J. Cherryh's 1983 novel Forty Thousand in Gehenna
In music:
- Gehenna (band), a Norwegian black/death metal band
- Gehenna, a song performed by metal band Before the Dawn from the EP of the same name Gehenna, also re-recorded and included in the 2007 single Deadsong
- Gehenna, a song performed by metal band Slipknot on the album All Hope Is Gone
Gehenna are a Norwegian Black metal band.
Gehenna, also known as Through Hell or Anguish is a 1938 Polish melodrama film directed by Michał Waszyński.
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Gehenna , from the Hebrew Gehinnom (Rabbinical: /), is the Jewish analogue of hell or purgatory in Christianity. The terms are derived from a place outside ancient Jerusalem known in the Hebrew Bible as the Valley of the Son of Hinnom (Hebrew: or , Gai Ben-Hinnom). The Valley of Hinnom is the modern name for the valley surrounding Jerusalem's Old City, including Mount Zion, from the west and south. It meets and merges with the Kidron Valley, the other principal valley around the Old City, near the southeastern corner of the city.
In the Hebrew Bible, Gehenna was initially where some of the kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire. Thereafter it was deemed to be cursed .
In Jewish Rabbinic literature, and Christian and Islamic scripture, Gehenna is a destination of the wicked. This is different from the more neutral Sheol/ Hades, the abode of the dead, although the King James Version of the Bible usually translates both with the Anglo-Saxon word Hell.
In the King James Version of the Bible, the term appears 13 times in 11 different verses as "Valley of Hinnom", "Valley of the son of Hinnom" or "Valley of the children of Hinnom."
"'Gehenna" is the second episode of the first season of the American crime- thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 1, 1996. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter, and directed by David Nutter. "Gehenna" featured guest appearances by Robin Gammel and Chris Ellis.
Offender profiler Frank Black ( Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is sent to San Francisco to track down a doomsday cult which murders its brainwashed members when they disobey it.
"Gehenna" sees both Carter and Nutter continue their roles from " Pilot", although it also necessitated changes in filming locations. The episode opens with a quote by W. H. Auden—the first of the series' opening quotations—and makes references to the Hebrew Bible's Gehenna.
Usage examples of "gehenna".
The primary meaning, then, of Gehenna, is a valley outside of Jerusalem, a place of corruption and fire, only to be thought of with execration and shuddering.
O gracious love of books, which by the grace of baptism transformed the child of Gehenna and nursling of Tartarus into a Son of the Kingdom!
Those two hardy human meals would have strengthened the great barghest considerably, perhaps even bringing Ulgulu to the level of maturation he needed to return to Gehenna.
He mistrusted the religious impulse much as the Perfect of Gehenna loathe water, as a snowworm avoids sunlight.
It was a small, yellow star of no particular distinction except that it was closest - topologically closest - to Gehenna Luz.
Gehenna, He crashed his clublike fist against the mountainside, breaking away chunks of stone that tumbled free to fall for eternity down the never-ending slope.
Ulgulu, too, had left his birthplace, the filthy, smoking rifts that marked the plane of Gehenna, but this monster had not come of his own accord.
Bhaal snarled his frustration across the realm of Gehenna, He crashed his clublike fist against the mountainside, breaking away chunks of stone that tumbled free to fall for eternity down the never-ending slope.
Let them face, though, the Gehenna Gun and be fibrillated apart, or cross blades with the Electrosword, or stand before the Fountain Shield, with its spray of cyanide and dimethyl sulfoxide, and they will know that it is the Lokapalas they face!
It was built into the rim of an asteroid impact crater seven miles in diameter, the largest terrain feature on this side of Gehenna.
In eras when no rejuv was possible, or in places such as Gehenna, where no rejuv is available, there are sociological accommodations to having a large portion of the population undergoing this slow diminution of physical and in a few cases mental capacity.
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.
The waiting captain shuddered involuntarily, for in the dim and flaring lantern light, in the close, noisome atmosphere of this place of stinks and blood and death, the surgeon's facewith precious little skin visible under the layers of old and new blood, spade beard and mustaches stiff with clotted gore, the just-rinsed teeth shining startlingly whitebore an uncanny resemblance to how Fahrooq assumed a man-eating Mareed from out the very depths of Gehenna must look.
If there'd been any doubts about there being an active base on Gehenna, the presence of a newly-installed Alliance minefield would've dispelled them.