WHAT IS HELL A place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death . Let the facts answer. There are three words translated " Hell " in the New Testament, Hades, and Tartarus, which are Greek, and Gehenna, which is the Greek form of the Hebrew words Gee and Hinnom , meaning "the valley of Hinnom." ... This word occurs eleven times and is rendered "grave" once, and " hell " ten times.