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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Hell
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(1):
(v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
(2):
(v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
(3):
(v. t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
(4):
(v. t.) A gambling house.
(5):
(v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
(6):
(v. t.) To overwhelm.
(7):
(v. t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.