HELL (0. Eng.

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• HEL, or HELA

hel, a

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic word from a

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root meaning " to

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• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover," cf. Ger. Holle, Dutch hel)  , the word used in English both of the place of departed spirits and of the place of torment of the wicked after death . It is used in the Old Testament to translate the Hebrew Sheol, and in the New Testament the Greek p;8ris, Hades, and y4vaa, Hebrew Gehenna (see ESCHATOLOGY) .