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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old English helan to conceal, Old High German helan, [[Latin]] celare, [[Greek]] kalyptein
An alternative derivation < the Germanic base of Old Icelandic hella flat stone, hallr stone, boulder, hill, Gothic hallus rock (of uncertain [[origin]], perhaps ultimately < the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_European_languages Indo-European] base as HILL n.), suggesting that the underworld was imagined as covered by a stone, is not generally accepted.
*Before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a (1) : a nether world in which the [[dead]] continue to exist : hades (2) : the nether realm of the [[devil]] and the demons in which the damned suffer everlasting punishment —often used in [[curses]] <go to hell> or as a generalized term of [[abuse]] <the hell with it>
:b Christian Science : [[error]] 2b, [[sin]]
*2a : a place or [[state]] of misery, torment, or wickedness <war is hell — W. T. Sherman>
:b : a place or [[state]] of turmoil or destruction <all hell broke loose>
:c : a severe scolding; also : flak, [[grief]] <gave me hell for coming in late>
:d : unrestrained fun or sportiveness <the kids were full of hell> —often used in the phrase for the hell of it especially to suggest [[action]] on impulse or without a serious [[motive]] <decided to go for the hell of it>
:e : an extremely unpleasant and often inescapable situation <rush-hour hell>
*3 archaic : a tailor's receptacle
*4 —used as an interjection <hell, I don't know!> or as an intensive <hurts like hell> <funny as hell> ; often used in the phrase hell of a <it was one hell of a good fight> or hell out of <scared the hell out of him> or with the or in <moved way the hell up north> <what in hell is wrong, now?>
==Description==
In many religious [[traditions]], '''Hell''' is a place of [[suffering]] and punishment in the [[afterlife]]. [[Religions]] with a linear [[divine]] [[history]] often depict Hell as endless. Religions with a [[cyclic]] history often depict Hell as an intermediary period between [[incarnations]]. Typically these [[traditions]] located Hell under the external core of the [[Earth]]'s [[surface]] and often included entrances to Hell from the land of the living. Other [[afterlife]] destinations included [[Heaven]], Purgatory, [[Paradise]], Nirvana, and Limbo.
Other [[traditions]], which did not conceive of the [[afterlife]] as a place of punishment or reward, merely described it as an [[abode]] of the dead — a neutral place located under the surface of Earth (for example, see sheol and Hades).
[[Modern]] understandings of Hell often depict it abstractly, as a [[state]] of loss rather than as fiery [[torture]] [[literally]] underground, but this view of hell can, in fact, be traced back into the [[ancient]] and medieval periods as well.
Hell is often portrayed as populated with [[demons]], who torment the damned. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, Hades, Yama or the Christian/Islamic [[Devil]], called [[Satan]] or [[Lucifer]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell]
[[Category: Religion]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old English helan to conceal, Old High German helan, [[Latin]] celare, [[Greek]] kalyptein
An alternative derivation < the Germanic base of Old Icelandic hella flat stone, hallr stone, boulder, hill, Gothic hallus rock (of uncertain [[origin]], perhaps ultimately < the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_European_languages Indo-European] base as HILL n.), suggesting that the underworld was imagined as covered by a stone, is not generally accepted.
*Before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a (1) : a nether world in which the [[dead]] continue to exist : hades (2) : the nether realm of the [[devil]] and the demons in which the damned suffer everlasting punishment —often used in [[curses]] <go to hell> or as a generalized term of [[abuse]] <the hell with it>
:b Christian Science : [[error]] 2b, [[sin]]
*2a : a place or [[state]] of misery, torment, or wickedness <war is hell — W. T. Sherman>
:b : a place or [[state]] of turmoil or destruction <all hell broke loose>
:c : a severe scolding; also : flak, [[grief]] <gave me hell for coming in late>
:d : unrestrained fun or sportiveness <the kids were full of hell> —often used in the phrase for the hell of it especially to suggest [[action]] on impulse or without a serious [[motive]] <decided to go for the hell of it>
:e : an extremely unpleasant and often inescapable situation <rush-hour hell>
*3 archaic : a tailor's receptacle
*4 —used as an interjection <hell, I don't know!> or as an intensive <hurts like hell> <funny as hell> ; often used in the phrase hell of a <it was one hell of a good fight> or hell out of <scared the hell out of him> or with the or in <moved way the hell up north> <what in hell is wrong, now?>
==Description==
In many religious [[traditions]], '''Hell''' is a place of [[suffering]] and punishment in the [[afterlife]]. [[Religions]] with a linear [[divine]] [[history]] often depict Hell as endless. Religions with a [[cyclic]] history often depict Hell as an intermediary period between [[incarnations]]. Typically these [[traditions]] located Hell under the external core of the [[Earth]]'s [[surface]] and often included entrances to Hell from the land of the living. Other [[afterlife]] destinations included [[Heaven]], Purgatory, [[Paradise]], Nirvana, and Limbo.
Other [[traditions]], which did not conceive of the [[afterlife]] as a place of punishment or reward, merely described it as an [[abode]] of the dead — a neutral place located under the surface of Earth (for example, see sheol and Hades).
[[Modern]] understandings of Hell often depict it abstractly, as a [[state]] of loss rather than as fiery [[torture]] [[literally]] underground, but this view of hell can, in fact, be traced back into the [[ancient]] and medieval periods as well.
Hell is often portrayed as populated with [[demons]], who torment the damned. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, Hades, Yama or the Christian/Islamic [[Devil]], called [[Satan]] or [[Lucifer]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell]
[[Category: Religion]]