Gehenna
Realm of damnation
Gehenna is a place of torment or suffering, especially in religious contexts referring to hell or a realm of punishment after death.
The name comes from a valley outside Jerusalem associated with fire and waste.
In figurative use, any place or state of extreme suffering: The battlefield was a Gehenna of smoke and screaming.
Eternal punishment decree
- brimstoneArchaic word for sulfur
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- sinnersMoral law violators
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
flames · torment · perdition · condemnation · infernal · sulfur · burning · unquenchable
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- painBodily or emotional distress
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
despair · affliction · woe · tribulation · lamentation · sorrow · trauma · scourge
Triply sacred ancient capital
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
- JeremiahOld Testament major prophet
- ChroniclesTwo Old Testament histories
prophecy · abomination · curse · Josiah · desecration
Reject or garbage
- smolderingBurning slowly, no flame
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- corpsesDead human bodies
- defilementAct of corrupting purity
corruption · foulness · accursed · carcasses · maggots · worms · stench · unclean
damnation
Eternal punishment decree
- brimstoneArchaic word for sulfur
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- sinnersMoral law violators
judgment · flames · torment · perdition · condemnation · infernal · sulfur · burning · unquenchable · fiery
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- painBodily or emotional distress
misery · despair · affliction · woe · tribulation · lamentation · sorrow · trauma · scourge · hopelessness
Jerusalem
Triply sacred ancient capital
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
- JeremiahOld Testament major prophet
Chronicles · prophecy · abomination · curse · Josiah · desecration
refuse
Reject or garbage
- smolderingBurning slowly, no flame
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- corpsesDead human bodies
defilement · corruption · foulness · accursed · carcasses · maggots · worms · stench · unclean
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- Mythic RealmsAsgard, Avalon, Elysium, Hades, Valhalla
- realmsrealm, kingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades
- UnderworldHades, Tartarus, netherworld, Sheol, Styx
- Biblical Afterlifeheaven, paradise, Hades, lake of fire, eternal life
- Jewish Loregolem, golems, Lilith, Leviathan, Kabbalah
Gehennaheaven
Sky or bliss
heavens · celestial realm · empyrean · seventh heaven · highest heaven