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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hades \Ha"des\, n. [Gr.? + ? to see Cf {Un-}, {Wit}.] The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave. And death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them --Rev. xx 13 (Rev. Ver. ). Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. --Acts ii 31 (Rev. Ver.). And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments. --Luke xvi.23 (Rev. Ver.). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Hades n 1: (classical mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone [syn: {Pluto}, {Hades}, {Aides}, {Aidoneus}] 2: (in various religions) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died" [syn: {Hel}, {Hell}, {Hades}, {infernal region}, {netherworld}, {Scheol}, {underworld}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Hades that which is out of sight, a Greek word used to denote the state or place of the dead. All the dead alike go into this place To be buried, to go down to the grave, to descend into hades, are equivalent expressions. In the LXX. this word is the usual rendering of the Hebrew sheol, the common receptacle of the departed (Gen. 42:38; Ps 139:8; Hos. 13:14; Isa. 14:9). This term is of comparatively rare occurrence in the Greek New Testament. Our Lord speaks of Capernaum as being "brought down to hell" (hades), i.e., simply to the lowest debasement, (Matt. 11:23). It is contemplated as a kind of kingdom which could never overturn the foundation of Christ's kingdom (16:18), i.e., Christ's church can never die. In Luke 16:23 it is most distinctly associated with the doom and misery of the lost. In Acts 2:27-31 Peter quotes the LXX. version of Ps 16:8-11, plainly for the purpose of proving our Lord's resurrection from the dead. David was left in the place of the dead, and his body saw corruption. Not so with Christ. According to ancient prophecy (Ps. 30:3) he was recalled to life. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue.
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