7 Surprising Facts You Should Know About Hell!

For many people, the word "hell" mostly throws visuals of eternal torment from Dante's Inferno.. But if we dig a little deeper into the Bible (with standard Hebrew/Greek dictionaries), what we find would surprise us and actually make us very happy and relieved!!

1. The # of occurrences of the word 'hell' varies from one Bible translation to another..

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KJV - 54 times

RSV - 17 times

NIV - 14 times

ASV - 13 times

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2. Many reputed Bible translations don't even have the word 'hell'.

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YLT - 0 times

Rotherham's - 0 times

Weymouth's - 0 times

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3. Four root words have been translated as 'hell' (with rather ulterior medieval motives) in English bibles...

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1. Sheol (Hebrew)

2. Hades (Greek)

3. Gehenna (Greek)

4. Tartaroo (Greek)

4. 'Sheol' (65 occurrences) - King James Bible (KJV) translates this word as 'grave' 31 times, 'pit' 3 times and 'hell' 31 times...

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What's the right meaning?

She'ol (/ˈʃiːoʊl/ SHEE-ohl) - the grave to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous

(Source: Wikipedia/Hebrew Dictionary)

5. 'Hades' (11 occurrences) - KJV translates it once as 'grave' and 10 times as 'hell'. Is this the Hades of Greek Mythology?

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No, the Bible is not a book of Greek Mythology. It's rather a book that originates from solid ancient Jewish writings. The bible's Hades is just the biblical Greek for Sheol.

Proof? The popular Greek version of the Hebrew OT uses Hades for Sheol. (This Greek OT is used extensively by the NT writers while quoting the Old Testament. So its reliability is solid). The Bible's Hades is simply Sheol/Grave.

6. 'Gehenna' (12 occurrences) - It's the name of a real place in Jerusalem. Jesus saying 'Gehenna' would be like a New Yorker saying 'Brooklyn'. Twisted translators translated a proper noun into 'hell'!!

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Gehenna was the valley in Jerusalem City that served as the city's waste incinerator. Torture was actually forbidden there. Jesus used it in symbolic statements (lake of fire, anyone?) to denote the destruction of evil forces in the end.

7. 'Tartaroo' (Only one occurrence) - It's not even mentioned in relation to human beings and is used as a verb!

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Yes, 'God tartaroo-ed some bad angels'. And it's explained as a temporary restriction imposed on some rogue angels from becoming visible (as a punishment for you know what they did in Noah's times! Angel-Human coupling, wink, wink. Hybrid giants, anyone?).