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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.
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 ...
Assiah (Hebrew: עֲשִׂיָּה, romanized: ʿĂśiyyā; also 'Asiya' [1] or 'Asiyah, also known as Olam Asiyah, עוֹלָם עֲשִׂיָּה "World of Action" [2]) is the last of the four spiritual worlds of the Kabbalah based on the passage in Isaiah 43:7. It is identical with the existing world that we live in. [1]
A minority of Christians read this to mean that neither Hades nor Gehenna are eternal but refer to the ultimate destruction of the wicked in the Lake of Fire in a consuming fire after resurrection. However, because of the Greek words used in translating from the Hebrew text, the Hebrew ideas have become confused with Greek myths and ideas.
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). [2]
"The valley of the Son of Hinnom": from Hebrew: גיא בן הנם 15] located very near to Jerusalem, of which a certain Hinnom was owner in Joshua's time (Joshua 15:8; 18:16), later is known as "Ge-hinnom" ("the valley of Hinnom"), that became the Greek word Gehenna, used by Jesus in Matthew 5:22. [16]
"The valley of the Son of Hinnom": from Hebrew: גיא בן הנם 19] located very near to Jerusalem, of which a certain Hinnom was owner in Joshua’s time (Joshua 15:8; 18:16), later is known as "Ge-hinnom" ("the valley of Hinnom"), that became the Greek word Gehenna, used by Jesus in Matthew 5:22. [20]