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[Hell; or Hell-fire;] a name of the fire with which God will punish, in the life to come, his [disobedient and unrepentant and unbelieving] servants; a proper name of the abode of punishment.
The word is made to rank almost with the five-letter class by the doubling of its third letter.
According to some it is an Arabic word, applied to the fire of the world to come because of its depth; [see the last paragraph;] or it was originally the same in meaning as النَّارُ [fire, or the fire]. It is imperfectly declinable because it is determinate and of the feminine gender.
According to others it is an arabicized word, imperfectly declinable because it is determinate and of foreign origin. Some say it is originally Persian; others that it is from the Hebrew كهنام [or, as Golius says, ? “the Valley of Hinnom,” where children were burned alive as sacrifices to the idol Moloch].
Lane cites “Bd in ii. 202” — a commentary, not the verse; no modern number is given
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[Hell; or Hell-fire;] (T, S, K, &c.;) a name of the fire with which God will punish, (T, S,) in the life to come, (T,) his [disobedient and unrepentant and unbelieving] servants; (S;) a proper name of the abode of punishment: (Bd, ii. 202:) a word rendered quasi-coordinate to the quinqueliteral-radical class by the doubling of the third letter: (S:) accord. to some, it is an Arabic word, applied to the fire of the world to come because of its depth; [see the last paragraph;] (T, TA;) or originally syn. with النَّارُ [fire, or the fire]; (Bd in ii. 202;) and imperfectly decl. because determinate and of the fem. gender: (T, S:) accord. to others, it is an arabicized word, (T, S, Bd ubi suprà,) imperfectly decl. because determinate and of foreign origin; (T, TA;) some say, originally Persian; (S;) others, from the Hebrew كهنام , (TA,) [or as Golius says, ? “ the Valley of Hinnom, ” where children were burned alive as sacrifices to the idol Moloch.] See also جِهِنَّامٌ .