I have heard different Churches say different things on this issue. So what do you all think? And, if you can back it up with the Bibles, please post the versus that match.
Thanks.
KJV Dictionary Definition: hell HELL, n.
Each # defines the words meaning based on context in which the word is used
1. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. Matt.10. Luke 12. Sin is hell begun, as religion is heaven anticipated.
2. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the lower regions, or the grave; called in Hebrew, sheol, and by the Greeks, hades. Ps. 16. Jon.2.
3. The pains of hell, temporal death, or agonies that dying persons feel, or which bring to the brink of the grave. Ps.18.
4. The gates of hell, the power and policy of Satan and his instruments. Matt.16.
5. The infernal powers. While Saul and hell cross'd his strong fate in vain.
6. The place at a running play to which are carried those who are caught.
7. A place into which a tailor throws his shreds.
8. A dungeon or prison.
Here again with Vine's context is key to how the word hell is defined
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words: Hell
(Strong's #1067 — Noun Feminine — geenna — gheh'-en-nah )
represents the Hebrew Ge-Hinnom (the valley of Tophet) and a corresponding Aramaic word; it is found twelve times in the NT, eleven of which are in the Synoptists, in every instance as uttered by the Lord Himself. He who says to his brother, Thou fool (see under FOOL), will be in danger of "the hell of fire," Matthew 5:22 ; it is better to pluck out (a metaphorical description of irrevocable law) an eye that causes its possessor to stumble, than that his "whole body be cast into hell," Matthew 5:29 ; similarly with the hand, Matthew 5:30 ;
in Matthew 18:8,9 , the admonitions are repeated, with an additional mention of the foot; here, too, the warning concerns the person himself (for which obviously the "body" stands in chapt. 5); in ver. 8, "the eternal fire" is mentioned as the doom, the character of the region standing for the region itself, the two being combined in the phrase "the hell of fire," ver. 9.
To the passage in Matthew 18 , that in Mark 9:43-47 , is parallel; here to the word "hell" are applied the extended descriptions "the unquenchable fire" and "where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched."
That God, "after He hath killed, hath power to cast into hell," is assigned as a reason why He should be feared with the fear that keeps from evil doing,
Luke 12:5 ; the parallel passage to this in Matthew 10:28 declares, not the casting in, but the doom which follows, namely, the destruction (not the loss of being, but of well-being) of "both soul and body."
In Matthew 23 the Lord denounces the scribes and Pharisees, who in proselytizing a person "make him two-fold more a son of hell" than themselves ( Matthew 23:15 ), the phrase here being expressive of moral characteristics, and declares the impossibility of their escaping "the judgment of hell," Matthew 23:33 .
In James 3:6 "hell" is described as the source of the evil done by misuse of the tongue; here the word stands for the powers of darkness, whose characteristics and destiny are those of "hell."
For terms descriptive of "hell," see e.g., Matthew 13:42 ; 25:46 ; Philippians 3:19 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ; Hebrews 10:39 ; 2 Peter 2:17 ; Jude 1:13 ; Revelation 2:11 ; 19:20 ; 20:6,10,14 ; 21:8 .
Notes: (1) For the rendering "hell" as a translation of hades, corresponding to Sheol, wrongly rendered "the grave" and "hell," see HADES.
(2) The verb tartaroo, translated "cast down to hell" in 2 Peter 2:4 , signifies to consign to Tartarus, which is neither Sheol nor hades nor hell, but the place where those angels whose special sin is referred to in that passage are confined "to be reserved unto judgment;" the region is described as "pits of darkness," RV.
Finally from my Sword of choice: KJB Thompson Chain Reference: Hell
• Gehenna (Greek, The place of Punishment)
• Matthew 5:22
•Matthew 5:29
•Matthew 10:28
•Matthew 18:9
•Matthew 23:15
•Matthew 23:33
•Mark 9:43
•Luke 12:5
•James 3:6
• Hades (Greek, The Abode of the Dead)
• Matthew 11:23
•Matthew 16:18
•Luke 16:23
•Acts 2:27
•Revelation 1:18
•Revelation 6:8
•Revelation 20:13
• Sheol (Hebrew, The Grave or Unseen State)
• Deuteronomy 32:22
•2 Samuel 22:6
•Job 11:8
•Job 26:6
•Psalm 9:17
•Psalm 16:10
•Psalm 18:5
•Psalm 55:15
•Psalm 86:13
•Psalm 116:3
•Psalm 139:8
•Proverbs 5:5
•Proverbs 7:27
•Proverbs 9:18
•Proverbs 15:11
•Proverbs 15:24
•Proverbs 23:14
•Proverbs 27:20
•Isaiah 5:14
•Isaiah 14:9
•Isaiah 14:15
•Isaiah 28:15
•Isaiah 28:18
•Isaiah 57:9
•Ezekiel 31:16
•Ezekiel 32:21
•Ezekiel 32:27
•Amos 9:2
•Jnh 2:2
• Habakkuk 2:5
• Tartarus
• (Greek, The Place of Punishment)
• 2 Peter 2:4
• SEE Fate of the Wicked
•SEE Torment
•SEE Retribution