is there a hebrew word for angels & one for hell?

Answer 1

This question is miscategorized. You'd get better responses in another, language or social category.

That being said:

For "angel," Hebrew generally uses "malach" (which means "messenger"). Jewish belief of angels is that they are extensions of G-d, sent to communicate with mankind. Therefore, they are messengers.

Many Jews don't believe in a hell like Christians do, and therefore there is no word that exactly matches the word "hell" in Hebrew.

Afterlife is the realm of G-d, not the observable realm of Mankind, and therefore Jewish views are varied on the subject.

Here are some commonalities:
The Jewish belief is that after one dies, one sees one's life in the context of total conscience, while in the full and total presence of G-d. If one can stand that scrutiny, one can withstand and enjoy the presence of G-d. If one can't withstand that scrutiny, then guilt consumes your soul. With that guilt, the presence of G-d around you constantly keeps you fully aware of your failure to live a just and honest life, and you are miserable. Since G-d is everywhere and in all things, there is no Hell, or place where G-d is absent.

Think about the irritation you feel when you've done something wrong to someone, and you feel guilty about it especially when they are around you. Take that feeling, increase it by it being G-d whom you have wronged, and the Eternal being around you at all times, and multiply that by every offence you have ever wrought against your fellow humans that you have refused to accept and correct... either by fixing it directly or balancing it with general good deeds and a true feeling of repentance....

In the Jewish faith, consciously recognizing your errors, sincerely feeling sorry for them (at the most deepest levels), and seeking to right the wrong directly and/or balancing your life with good deeds toward man and toward G-d (Mitzvot), truly does ensure that when you face G-d after death, you can enjoy His presence. But you don't do these things (making things right, doing Mitzvot) out of fear of death, but because you are truly driven in your heart to be a good person, anyway.

In the Jewish faith, we make our own Heaven and Hell after death... both defined by the constant surrounding presence of G-d.

The closest one can come to an afterlife place that would be similar to Hell is She'ol, or the Place of Waiting.... that actual act of Death that is the transitional point... the grave, the fear that is associated with the end of one's life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

http://www.enotalone.com/article/4542.html

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ideas_belief/afterlife/AE_Afterlife_TO.htm


Some ultra-Orthodox Jews have beliefs that come from a combination of original Jewish afterlife beliefs and Greek influence (just as Christians are Greco-Roman influenced), that does include an eternal place of damnation (Gehenna), after the final messianic age.

Here is a description of that group's views:
http://www.religionfacts.com/judaism/beliefs/afterlife.htm

Answer 2

Angels = מלאכים Malachim
Hell = גיהנום Gehenom

Answer 3

מלאך(malach) is angel

Hell would be גהנם(geheneim), and the devil would be שטן(satan) which actually means prosecutor, which is as close to a devil as you get in Hebrew