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{
"word": "or both: Hellfire"
},
{
"word": "hell-fire"
},
{
"word": "Hell-fire"
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{
"word": "also as fires of hell"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nāru jahannam",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "نَارُ جَهَنَّم"
},
{
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"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "地獄之火"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dìyùzhīhuǒ",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "地狱之火"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "業火"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": ":yèhuǒ",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "业火"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "põrgutuli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "helvetin tuli"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "feu de l’enfer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Höllenfeuer"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pyr to exótero",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πυρ το εξώτερο"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dojag",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "दोजग"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "jahannam",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "जहन्नम"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fuoco d'inferno"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "fiamme dell'inferno"
},
{
"alt": "ごうか",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gōka",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "業火"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dowzax",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "دوزخ"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Halenfia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ogień piekielny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fogo do inferno"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gejénna ógnennaja",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гее́нна о́гненная"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ádskij ogónʹ",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "а́дский ого́нь"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "паклени огањ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pakleni oganj"
},
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"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "dozax",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"word": "دوزخ"
},
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"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "jahannam",
"sense": "fire of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "جہنم"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fire caused by the Devil",
"word": "helvetin tuli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intensive fire",
"word": "pätsi"
}
],
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}
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"ref": "2005, Sang Hyun Lee, The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards, University of Princeton Press, page 253",
"text": "Sermons such as The Eternity of Hell Torments and The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable, as well as several manuscript examples, serve to mark the distinction between a true hellfire sermon and the proto-eschatological concerns of Sinners [in the Hands of an Angry God], consumed as it is with the here and now.",
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