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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gehenna (Greek ), Gehinnom (Rabbinical Hebrew: / ) and Yiddish Gehinnam, are terms derived from a place outside ancient Jerusalem known in the Hebrew Bible as the Valley of the Son of Hinnom (Hebrew: or - ); one of the In both Rabbinical Jewish and Early Christian writing, Gehenna was a destination of the wicked.[citation needed] This is different from the more neutral Sheol/Hades, the abode of the dead, though the King James version of the Bible traditionally translates both with the Anglo-Saxon word Hell.