hellfires
Eternal punishment's blaze
Hellfires is the plural of hellfire—the fires of hell, understood as eternal punishment for the damned.
The word appears most often in religious contexts warning of damnation: The preacher thundered about hellfires awaiting sinners.
Hellfire also names the AGM-114 missile used by U.S. military aircraft.
Archaic word for sulfur
- perditionEternal spiritual ruin
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
- underworldRealm of the departed
Satan · Lucifer · damnation · purgatory · eternal · doom · torment · agony
Prophesied concluding era
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- tribulationState of great distress
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
prophecy · wrath · destruction · annihilation · cataclysm · antichrist · reckoning · vengeance
Burning very brightly
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- infernalOf the underworld
- ragingViolently uncontrolled
consuming · unquenchable · burning · engulfing · relentless · fury · devastating · overwhelming
brimstone
Archaic word for sulfur
underworld · Satan · Lucifer · damnation · purgatory · eternal · doom · torment · agony · suffering
end-times
Prophesied concluding era
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- tribulationState of great distress
rapture · prophecy · wrath · destruction · annihilation · cataclysm · antichrist · reckoning · vengeance · retribution
blazing
Burning very brightly
raging · consuming · unquenchable · burning · engulfing · relentless · fury · devastating · overwhelming · all-consuming
missile
Self-guided airborne weapon
- ApacheSouthwestern indigenous nation
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- PredatorAlien species hunting humans
drone · strike · warfare · weapon · munitions · attack · combat · ordnance · payload · targeting
hellfiressalvation
Deliverance from harm
paradise · heaven · divine grace · eternal life · redemption