Usually means: Valley, later Jewish hell concept.
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  1. Gehenna: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gehenna: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Gehenna: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gehenna: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gehenna: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gehenna, gehenna: Wordnik
  7. Gehenna, gehenna: Wiktionary
  8. Gehenna: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Gehenna: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Gehenna, gehenna: Dictionary.com
  11. gehenna: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Gehenna (Dungeons & Dragons), Gehenna (Millennium), Gehenna (World of Darkness), Gehenna (band), Gehenna (comics), Gehenna (disambiguation), Gehenna (film), Gehenna: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Gehenna: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gehenna: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Gehenna: Rhymezone
  16. Gehenna: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gehenna: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. gehenna: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gehenna: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Gehenna: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Gehenna: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. Gehenna: Merriam-Webster

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  1. gehenna-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. Gehenna: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gehenna: A Word A Day

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gehenna: Easton Bible
  2. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Gehenna: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Gehenna: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gehenna)

noun:  In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.
noun:  Hell.
noun:  A place of suffering and misery.
noun:  The valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna [In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.]

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