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单词 gehenna
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gehennan.

Brit. /ɡᵻˈhɛnə/, U.S. /ɡəˈhɛnə/
Etymology: < Ecclesiastical Latin gehenna, < Hellenistic Greek γέεννα , rendered ‘hell’ in the English New Testament (also γέεννα τοῦ πυρός ‘gehenna of fire’, rendered ‘hell fire’). In medieval Latin the word was used transferred for judicial torture: compare gehenne n.The Greek γέεννα was < post-Biblical Hebrew ihinnōm hell, place of fiery torment for the dead (whence Arabic jahannam ), a figurative use of the place-name which occurs also in the fuller form i ben Hinnōm , ‘the valley of the son of Hinnom’, denoting a place near Jerusalem where, according to Jeremiah xix. 5, etc., children were burnt in sacrifice to Baal or Molech. Compare Tophet n.
1. The place of future torment; hell.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun]
helleOE
hellOE
perditiona1382
perishingc1384
welling woea1400
hellwardc1400
Topheta1425
gehenne1481
to devilwardc1550
limbo1581
Averna1592
Hades1597
Sheol1599
other place1604
underworld1608
infernals1613
gehenna1623
lower world1639
netherworld1640
pandemonium1667
subterrenea1711
diablerie1776
inferno1834
ballyhooly1837
nether region1839
Sam Hill1839
Ballyhack1843
tunket1871
bogydom1880
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Gehenna, Hell.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. i. 281 A valley shadowed with wood, called Gehinnon [sic] or Tophet, from whence is the word Gehenna vsed for hell.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 405 [Moloch] made his Grove The pleasant Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd, the Type of Hell. View more context for this quotation]
1854 J. L. Motley Let. 8 May in Corr. (1889) I. vi. 166 The groans which occasionally ascended seemed as from a Gehenna.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 63 Making their proselytes ten-times-worse children of Gehenna than themselves.
1883 Punch 8 Sept. 119/1 A Gehenna of flaring gas-flames and a howling warder stop the way again.
2. transferred. A place of torture; a prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
prisona1200
jailc1275
lodgec1290
galleya1300
chartrea1325
ward1338
keepingc1384
prison-house1419
lying-house1423
javel1483
tollbooth1488
kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
warding-place1571
the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
gehenna1594
Lob's pound1597
caperdewsie1599
footman's inn1604
cappadochio1607
pena1640
marshalsea1652
log-house1662
bastille1663
naskin1673
state prison1684
tronk1693
stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
shop1699
black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
kitty1825
rock pile1830
bughouse1842
zindan1844
model1845
black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
chokey1874
gib1877
nick1882
choker1884
logs1888
booby house1894
big house1905
hoosegow1911
can1912
detention camp1916
pokey1919
slammer1952
joint1953
slam1960
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K4 I [sc. a Spaniard] winning haue the crownes, he loosing is carried to the galleys. This is our custome, which a hundred times and more hath paid mee custome of crownes, when the poore fellowes haue gone to Gehenna, [and] had course bread and whipping chere all their life after.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 12 They had neither bin hal'd into your Gehenna at Lambeth, nor strappado'd with an Oath Ex Officio by your bow men of the Arches.

Derivatives

geˈhennical adj. Obsolete belonging to gehenna.
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1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 18 As by his genealogicall glosses he hath abused βιβλὸν γενέσεως, so by his gehennicall cursings he might set on fire τροχὸν γενέσεως [cf. Jam. iii. 6].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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