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Gehenna

12 mentions in 4 books, most in Matthew (7)

Who they were

The name comes from the valley of the son of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where Judah’s kings burned their children in the fire at Topheth (Jeremiah 7:31). Jesus used it for the punishment of the wicked after the judgment: “fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna” (Matthew 10:28); it is “the unquenchable fire” (Mark 9:43), “where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:48). He warned of it in love, so that we would escape it: “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matthew 25:46).

Gehenna is not Sheol or Hades, the realm of the dead: at the last judgment “Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death” (Revelation 20:14).

Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses

Every mention

12 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
MatthewChapter 5: 3 mentionsChapter 10: 1 mentionChapter 18: 1 mentionChapter 23: 2 mentions7 mentions
Matthew 5:22But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever…Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be…Matthew 5:30If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be…Matthew 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.Matthew 18:9If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.Matthew 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as…Matthew 23:33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
MarkChapter 9: 3 mentions3 mentions
Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,Mark 9:45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be…Mark 9:47If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
LukeChapter 12: 1 mention1 mention
Luke 12:5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
JamesChapter 3: 1 mention1 mention
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

What the dictionary says

(originally Ge bene Hinnom; i.e., “the valley of the sons of Hinnom”), a deep, narrow glen to the south of Jerusalem, where the idolatrous Jews offered their…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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