The places of the dead and of punishment in the Abrahamic religions: Sheol, Gehenna, Jahannam, Hell in general and the Zoroastrian House of Lies. A realm belongs here when its cited article describes a hell or underworld of the Hebrew Bible, Christianity, Islam or Zoroastrianism. It excludes Indic hells. Examples in the atlas include Sheol, Gehenna, Jahannam, Hell and The House of Lies. The group runs from the shadowy Sheol of the Hebrew Bible to the fire of Jahannam and the Zoroastrian House of Lies, each a place where the dead or the damned are held.
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Gehenna (Wikipedia)
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Gehenna ( ghi-HEN-ə; Ancient Greek: Γέεννα, romanized: Géenna) or Gehinnom (Hebrew: גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם, romanized: Gēʾ ḇen-Hīnnōm or גֵי־הִנֹּם, Gē-Hīnnōm, 'Valley of Hinnom') is a Biblical toponym that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology.
Hell (Wikipedia)
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In religion and folklore, Hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history sometimes depict hells as eternal, such as in some versions of Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the Indian religions.
Jahannam (Wikipedia)
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In Islam, Jahannam (Arabic: جهنم) is the place of punishment for evildoers in the Akhirah / afterlife, or hell.
Sheol (Wikipedia)
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Sheol (Biblical Hebrew: שְׁאוֹל, romanized: Šəʾōl; Tiberian Hebrew: Šŏʾōl) in the Hebrew Bible is the underworld, or the unseen world of the dead to which departed spirits go.
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