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has gloss	(noun) (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners; "his sermons were full of fire and brimstone" fire and brimstone
has gloss	eng: Fire and brimstone (or, alternately, brimstone and fire, translated from the Hebrew גפרית ואש) are signs of God's wrath in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament. In the Bible, they often appear in reference to the fate of the unfaithful. "Brimstone," possibly the ancient name for sulphur, evokes the acrid odor of volcanic activity. The term is also used, sometimes pejoratively, to describe a style of Christian preaching that uses vivid descriptions of judgment and eternal damnation to encourage repentance.
lexicalization	eng: Fire and brimstone
lexicalization	eng: Fire-and-brimstone
subclass of	(noun) the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell damnation, eternal damnation

Meaning
German
has gloss	deu: Strafpredigten wurden im beginnenden 14. und 15. Jahrhundert von den katholischen Mönchen und Priestern in den Gemeinden verlesen, um den Gläubigen das Schlechte des weltlichen Lebens vor Augen zu halten. Zudem werden in einer solchen Predigt die Verfehlungen benannt und die Folgen, die Strafen, die bei einer Nichtbefolgung der Regeln entstehen können, in teilweise drastischen Worten geschildert. In einer Strafpredigt werden die Adressaten demnach getadelt und auf ihre zu erfüllenden Pflichten hingewiesen.
lexicalization	deu: Strafpredigt
Russian
has gloss	rus: Жу́пел (болг . «сера») — в церковнославянском языке горящая сера: «И Господь одожди на содом и гоморр жупел, и огнь от Господа с небесе \| И пролил Господь на Содом и Гоморру дождем серу и огонь от Господа с неба» .
lexicalization	rus: жупел

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has category	(noun) the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible Old Testament
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