Besides Sheol, Hades, Abyss, Tartarus, and Gehenna, the Bible uses other designations and descriptions (whether literally or metaphorically) for the “abode of the damned”: “lower hell” (2 Pet 2:4 Vulgate tartarus), “place of torments” (Luke 16:28), “pool of fire” (Rev 19:20), “unquenchable fire” (Matt 3:12), “exterior darkness” (Matt 7:12; 22:13; 25:30), “furnace of fire” (Matt 13:42, 50), “everlasting fire” (Matt 18:8; 25:41; Jude 7), “death” (Rom 6:21), “corruption” (phthora, Gal 6:8), “destruction” (apōleia, Phil 3:19), “eternal destruction” (olethros aiōnion, 2 Thess 1:9), “perdition”
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