GEH 
GEETE, a river of Brabant, which runs into the Demer 
at Helen. 
ACH, mountains of Irelan a in the counties of 
Leitrim and Recomac: which contain feveral a 
amongit others thofe - which | ‘have been worked at 
rigna. 
GEFLE, a river sf Sw reden, which paffes ie the town 
of the fame namé, and runs into the gulf of Bothnia, about 
tomiles below it. Here i i to be. navigable for veflels 
pe or to. fect of y 
r Giaw ule, a. poe a Pia in' the province 
of | Giltticis, on an‘armof the gulf of Bothnia, which di- 
vides the town, and, firrounds it § a forming two iflands, 
This town is ancient; the houfes” ‘are ‘conitruéted partly of 
brick’ or ftone, plaiftered white, which havea neat appear- 
orts aré. iron, pitch and tar, and planks ; Haro 
principal ex xpor 
69, miles N. of Upii 
of its inh jabitants are fi lermen 5 
N. lat. 60° 42") E. long. 15° 57’. 
GEFREES, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Bayreuth 5 5 12 mi es N.N.E. of aad IN, lat. Gor 5 
. long. 10° 
EFRO RN. ee Bre 
GE GAD ivay, a town "of f Tindooftan, i in the Mytore 3 
8 miles S.E. ‘of Kiltna agheri 
GEGE, a river of Profi van Lithuania, which runs into 
the Wilde; 2 ‘miles §.I5. of Plafchken. Seay a town of 
ss ee in Cochin } 2% miles E. of C 
‘GEGENDA,’a town of- European Torker, in Bulgaria, 
on the Danube ; j 20 miles W. of Nicopo li. 
GEGENES, P-fevs:, in Antiquity.’ The ancients gene- 
rally called eee Deyensts ; fons of the earth, as Hefychius 
were believed to be’ — out. the ground. Pot 
Archeol. Grec. lib. i. 
GEGENY, in Geogr: ee a town of ; Hungary ; 3 23 miles 
E. of Gros Wardein. 
GEGLACKE, a town of . Pruffia, in Natangen; 10 
or N.E. of Raftenburg. 
GEGNO, a town of Ttaly, in the department of the 
Lario ; -3 lea N. of Como. 
GEH ANPENNA, a town ‘of Hindooftan ; ; 7 miles 
N.W. of 
GEHARCONDA, a town of Hindooftan, ia Candeifh, 
on the river Oodah Ootale ; 50 miles E. of Burhanpour. 
GEHENNA, Tse, a fcripture term, which has given 
is perplexity t to the critics. “It occurs’ in St. Matthew, 
+22. 29, 30. x. 28. xvili, Q. xxiii. 15. a2. Mark, 1%. 
43: 45:47. Luke, xii. 5. — iD, 6. * 
“The authors’ of ‘the. ‘Louvai neva’ eon retain 
the word gebenina, ‘ag it * fahas. in‘ the Greek ; the like d 
M. Simon ard’ the Latin ‘tranflators ; but the Englith tgan- 
flators rendet it by Aci] and Sell- fire ; ‘and the like do the 
tranflators of Mons, ‘and father Bohours: but it is indif- 
putable, that it isemployed in the New Teftament to denote 
tse place of fi future puaifhment’; whereas in the Old Teftament 
we do not find this place mentioned’ in the fame manner. 
Accordingly, the word yee does not occur in the Septua- 
éint 5° dnd as it Bi: hoe, a Greek’ word,.it is not to: be found 
an the Greek claffics. ‘It is originally: 
compound of the: 
two' Hebrew words [9 577'8!35 g¢° Ainnom, the. valley of- 
You. KV, 
GET 
Hinnom, a rages near Jerufalem, firft mentioned in the book 
of Jofhua, (ch. xv t was there that the cruel facri- 
fices of children were nade, by caufing them to pafs through 
fire, to Moloch, the ‘Ammonitith idol (2 Chron. xxxiii. 6. 2 
It was alfo called «¢ Tophet,”’ (2 Kings, xxiii. ro. ), as 
is fuppofed, from the-noife of drums aes fignifying a 
drum), a noife produced on purpofe to drown the cries of 
the helplefs infants. King Jofiah, to oe this Se for 
ever abominable, made a aes or common few ewer thereof, 
where all the filth and carcafes in the city were c 
The Jews obferve farther, that there was a Seca ual fire 
kept up there, to burn and confume thofe carcafes ; 
which: reafon, as they had no proper term in their language 
to fignify Aell, they made ufe of that of gehenna, or gehinnom, 
to _ a fire inextingui nable. 
is place was, in procefs of time, confidered as 
the other two the expreflion is figurative ; 
is taken, without queftion, from that fate ‘of nals which 
awaits the impenitent. Thus, the Pharifees are faid t 
make the profelyte, whom they c compafs fea and land to 
gain, = more a child of heil, tos ysevns, than themfelves 
(Matt. xxii 
5 YEEVNC 
AE in Geo eography, a town of Germany, and 
an of a lordthi in i Deer of Weiltphalia, fituated on 
the Aa; within the bifho of Munfter. The inh ere 
are Lutherans and Ca Ivirtts, ‘each of whom have a churel 
16 miles N.E. of Wefel. N. lat. 51° 55. XE. long. 6° 
5's 
: GE-HO, a town of Chinefe eels: ha miles N.E. 
of Pekin. N. lat 41° 3’. E. long. 117° 
GE-HOFEN, a town of Germany, in ihe county of 
Mansfeld... 
Acta ee a town of rection in a principality of 
; 6 miles W.S.W. of Han 
> a town oe ae, in the county of 
Schwartzburg ; 10 miles S. of Arnftadt. 
GEIBENHEIM, a town of France, in aed department 
of the Upper Rhine; 12 miles N E. of Be 
GEJER, Martin, in Biography, a “leaned Germa 
was born at a inthe year 1614, w 
educated. e was created a doctor in 
ebrew, minifter of St. fte 
confeffor, and member of the ecclefiaftical cou of the 
elector of Saxony. He died at the age of fi fixty- -feven in 
the year 1681. He was author of Commentaries on the 
books of Pfalms, Proverbs, Ecclefiaftes, and cao 7 
many. other works abounding in erudition. Thef 
afterwards colleéted and - printed i in two vols. folio. Mo. 
rwards preacher, 
neil 
a 
“GEIHOUN, in s Cumraphy, a river of Syria, which runs 
into the. bay of Alexandretta. - N. lat. 36° 
EIKIN, a river of Perfia, which als the province 
of Kerman from'Mecran, and runs into the Indian fea; 60 
miles §.W. of cape Jafques. ; 
5A GEIL, 
