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hellfire (n.)
also
hell fire
, from Old English
hellefyr
, in which
helle
is the genitive case of
hell
. It translates Greek
gehenna tou pyros
, literally "fiery hell." Also used in Middle English for "erysipelas" (mid-15c.).