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2007-09-03 05:41:14 · 6 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Linda the KJV is not the literal translation of the original texts. I am asking the ORIGINAL

2007-09-03 07:50:18 · update #1

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Hell does not show up a single time in the bible before the 4th century CE. The term Hell is derived from Old English Hel and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *χaljo. The English term is related to Old Norse Hel. In relation, surviving representations of Germanic polytheism in the form of Norse mythology feature Hel, the daughter of Loki and Angr. Hel rules over Niflheim. The basis of Hell in the Christian sense takes its origin from the Greek Tartarus.

Hell, as it is perceived in the Western population, has its origins in Hellenized Christianity, particularly taken the Judaic belief of Hell from verses such as 2 Chronicles 28:3; 33:6; 2 Kings 23:10.

Judaism, at least initially, believed in Sheol, a shadowy existence to which all were sent indiscriminately. Sheol may have been little more than a poetic metaphor for death, not really an afterlife at all: see for example Sirach and Isaiah 14:3-11. However, by the third to second century B.C. the idea had grown to encompass a far more complex concept.

Sheol is sometimes compared to Hades, the gloomy, twilight afterlife of Greek mythology. The word "hades" was in fact substituted for "sheol" when the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek (see Septuagint). The New Testament (written in Greek) also uses "hades" to refer to the abode of the dead.

By the second century BC, Jews had come to believe that those in sheol awaited the resurrection either in comfort (in the bosom of Abraham) or in torment. This belief is reflected in Jesus' story of Lazarus and Dives.

Protestants, who do not share a concept of "hades" with the Eastern Orthodox, have traditionally translated "sheol" (and "hades") as "hell" (for example in the King James Version). However, to avoid confusion of what are actually quite separate concepts in the Bible, modern English versions of the Bible tend either to transliterate the word sheol or to use an alternative term such as the "grave" (eg. NIV). Roman Catholics generally translate "sheol" simply as "death."

In the King James Bible, the Old Testament term sheol is translated as Hell 31 times. However Sheol was translated as "grave" 31 times. Sheol is also translated as pit three times.

The New Testament uses this word, but it also uses the word 'Gehenna', from the valley of Hinnom, a valley near Jerusalem originally used as a location in which human sacrifices were offered to an idol called "Molech" (or Moloch).

The word Gehenna is originally the Hebrew‎ Gêhinnôm meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley forms the southern border of ancient Jerusalem and stretches from the foot of Mt. Zion, eastward, to the Kidron Valley. It is first mentioned in Joshua 15:8. as a deep, narrow ravine at the foot of the walls of Jerusalem where refuse was burned. It is here that the bodies of executed criminals or others deemed unworthy of a proper burial were dumped. The association with hell derives from the tradition that the Canaanites sacrificed children to their god Moloch in this place. In the New Testament of the KJV, Gehenna is always translated as Hell.

The KJV also translates Hades as Hell 10 times, and as grave once. Hades is traditionally the Greek word used to mean the land where the dead go, and does not specify a fiery pit. The word Hades encompasses Elesium, a Greek version of Heaven, Limbo, a Greek version of Purgatory, and Tartarus, the Greek versions of Hell and ultimately where the Christian concept of hell takes most of its origin.

The KJV translates tartarus, which appears only in II Pet. 2:4, as Hell. In classic Greek mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus. It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades or the entire underworld with Hades being the hellish component. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.

2007-09-03 09:34:45 · answer #1 · answered by Lord AmonRaHa 3 · 1 0

Check the concordance of your Bible. Here is but a few verses in the old and new testament: IISamuel 22:6, Psalms 18:5, Job 11:8;26:6, Psalms 16:10, Acts 2:27, Hebrews4:16

2007-09-03 14:01:16 · answer #2 · answered by Linda S 2 · 1 2

It doesn't ,it mentions Gehenna ,Sheol ,and Tarterus and a few other greek hells though ,the word hell comes from the Norse goddess Hel ,daughter of Loki.

2007-09-03 12:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by simonzer0 2 · 1 0

There are different Greek and Hebrew words that are translated Hell, depending on the context. Sometimes they are translated, "Grave."

2007-09-03 12:52:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It doesn't. Check out Zoroastrianism.
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2007-09-03 12:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0 0

Doesn't

2007-09-03 13:46:45 · answer #6 · answered by Suzanne 5 · 0 0

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