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Treatment of Gehenna in Christianity is significantly affected by whether the distinction in Hebrew and Greek between Gehenna and Hades was maintained: Translations with a distinction: The fourth century Ulfilas or Gothic Bible is the first Bible to use Hell's Proto-Germanic form Halja, and maintains a distinction between Hades and Gehenna
In the Hebrew Bible, Tophet or Topheth (Biblical Hebrew: תֹּפֶת, romanized: Tōp̄eṯ; Ancient Greek: Ταφέθ, romanized: taphéth; Latin: Topheth) is a location in Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), where worshipers engaged in a ritual involving "passing a child through the fire", most likely child sacrifice.
Biblical text on a synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic: "Hashem kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up." (1 Samuel 2:6)Sheol (/ ˈ ʃ iː. oʊ l,-əl / SHEE-ohl, -uhl; Hebrew: שְׁאוֹל Šəʾōl, Tiberian: Šŏʾōl) [1] in the Hebrew Bible is the underworld place of stillness and darkness which lies after death.
Young's Literal Translation and the New World Translation are two notable exceptions, both of which simply use the word "Gehenna". Hades Hades is the Greek word which is traditionally used in place of the Hebrew word Sheol in works such as the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Like other first-century Jews who were literate ...
The word Moloch (מלך) occurs eight times in the Masoretic text, the standard Hebrew text of the Bible. Five of these are in Leviticus, with one in 1 Kings, one in 2 Kings and another in The Book of Jeremiah. Seven instances include the Hebrew definite article ha-('the') or have a prepositional form indicating the presence of the definite ...
The Hebrew Bible describes the Jebusites as dwelling in the mountains beside Jerusalem in Numbers 13:29 and Joshua 11:3. In the narration of the burning bush in Exodus 3:18, the "good and large land, flowing with milk and honey" that was promised to Moses as the future home of the oppressed Hebrews included the land of the Jebusites. [21]
Articles related to Gehenna, a small valley in Jerusalem. In the Hebrew Bible , Gehenna was initially where some of the kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire. [ 1 ] Thereafter, it was deemed to be cursed ( Book of Jeremiah 7:31 , 19:2 – 6 ).
This is simply unacceptable. Yes, 'Gehenna' is a Greek word but so too is 'Christ' which is translated from the Hebrew word 'Messiah.' It would be reasonable for a Jew to object to the useage of the word 'Christ' when talking about Yeshua if they didn't believe He was the Messiah. Even though the word 'Christ' appears nowhere in the Hebrew Bible.