Ge·hen·na /gɪˈhɛnə/
 欣嫩子谷,焦熱地獄,地獄


 Ge·hen·na prop. n.  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 effluvia.  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.

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 Gehenna
      n : a place where the wicked are punished after death [syn: Tartarus]


 Gehenna
    (originally Ge bene Hinnom; i.e., "the valley of the sons of
    Hinnom"), a deep, narrow glen to the south of Jerusalem, where
    the idolatrous Jews offered their children in sacrifice to
    Molech (2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:2-6). This valley
    afterwards became the common receptacle for all the refuse of
    the city. Here the dead bodies of animals and of criminals, and
    all kinds of filth, were cast and consumed by fire kept always
    burning. It thus in process of time became the image of the
    place of everlasting destruction. In this sense it is used by
    our Lord in Matt. 5:22, 29, 30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15, 33; Mark
    9:43, 45, 47; Luke 12:5. In these passages, and also in James
    3:6, the word is uniformly rendered "hell," the Revised Version
    placing "Gehenna" in the margin. (See HELL; HINNOM.)