Four English words translated hell

Most of the confusion around Hell starts with translation error of four 4 different words into one English word “hell”. Sheol (Hebrew). Hades (Greek). Tartarus (Greek). Gehenna (Greek).

Sheol (H7585) she’ôl From H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates: – grave, pit, hell. Sheol 65 OT occurrences. Mostly relating to the grave or the place that dead souls depart to.

Hades (G86) hadēs From G1 and G1492; properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: – grave, hell. Surprisingly Hades only has 11 NT occurrences

    Hades was used 4 times by Jesus, none relating to punishment.2 uses of hades in Acts quoting OT references Sheol relating to Jesus’ death. 1 use in 1 Cor 15 referring to breaking the power of death •4 uses in Revelation.

    1 Corinthians 15:55 where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory? Luke 10:15 And you, Capernaum, which unto the heaven was exalted, unto hades you shall be brought down.

    Revelation 1:18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death. Revelation 20:14 and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire — this [is] the second death.

    Matthew 16:18 And I also say to you, that you are a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. None of these references is relating to “hell” or punishment.

    Tartarus (G5020) tartaroō. From Tartaros̄ (the deepest abyss of Hades); Greek mythology the place where the Titans were incarcerated. To incarcerate in eternal torment: – cast down to hell this addition to the definition was a totally made up one.

    Tartarus 1 mention.2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into (“hell”) Tartarus and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; No “hellish” punishment. 

    Jude 1:And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains (desmos)under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

    1 peter 3: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison (phylakē) 20 Which in times past were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

    Sounds like Jesus set the captives of the spirits free that died when they died in the flood.

    I personally do not believe death is not end of choice. Only found one Scripture that says it is appointed for man once to die and then the judgment. Remember we all have already died on the cross. Jesus died as us.

    2 Peter: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (Tartaros), and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment

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