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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_183242" /> == | |||
<p> A dark sunless waste in the nether deeps, as far below earth as heaven is above it, into which Zeus hurled the [[Titans]] that rebelled against him; the term was subsequently sometimes used to denote the whole nether world and sometimes the place of punishment. </p> | <p> (n.) The infernal regions, described in the [[Iliad]] as situated as far below [[Hades]] as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57580" /> == | |||
<p> See Hell. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_80533" /> == | |||
<p> A dark sunless waste in the nether deeps, as far below earth as heaven is above it, into which [[Zeus]] hurled the [[Titans]] that rebelled against him; the term was subsequently sometimes used to denote the whole nether world and sometimes the place of punishment. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_183242"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/tartarus Tartarus from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_57580"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/tartarus Tartarus from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_80533"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/tartarus Tartarus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_80533"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/tartarus Tartarus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:04, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [2]
See Hell.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
A dark sunless waste in the nether deeps, as far below earth as heaven is above it, into which Zeus hurled the Titans that rebelled against him; the term was subsequently sometimes used to denote the whole nether world and sometimes the place of punishment.
