Hades

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hades \Ha"des\ (h[=a]"d[=e]z), n. [Gr. "a',dhs, "A'idhs; 'a
     priv. + 'idei^n 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.
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           And death and Hades gave up the dead which were in
           them.                                    --Rev. xx. 13
                                                    (Rev. Ver.).
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           Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see
           corruption.                              --Acts ii. 31
                                                    (Rev. Ver.).
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           And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments.
                                                    --Luke xvi. 23
                                                    (Rev. Ver.).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tartarus \Tar"ta*rus\ (t[aum]r"t[.a]*r[u^]s), prop. n. [L., from
     Gr. Ta`rtaros.] (Class. Myth.)
     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hades
       n 1: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient
            mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone
            [syn: {Pluto}, {Aides}, {Aidoneus}]
       2: (religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to
          hell when he died" [syn: {Hel}, {Hell}, {infernal region},
           {netherworld}, {Scheol}, {underworld}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "Hades":
     Abaddon, Acheron, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amenti, Amor,
     Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Aralu, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena,
     Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele,
     Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Eros,
     Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Gehenna, Great Mother, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus,
     Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter,
     Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus,
     Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater,
     Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Naraka, Neptune,
     Niflheim, Niflhel, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus,
     Osiris, Pandemonium, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus,
     Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine,
     Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Sheol, Tartarus, Tellus, Tophet,
     Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, avichi, hell, infernal regions,
     inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition,
     pit of Acheron, place of torment, purgatory, shades below,
     the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, 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.