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Tartarus comes from the Greek word Tartaroo which is used only once in the New Testament in 2 Peter 2:4.
- "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (Lit. Tartarus) and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment; . . ." (2 Peter 2:4, (KJV)).
Most English versions, translate the word as Hell. According to Thayer’s Greek Definitions, Tartaroo is "the name of the subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to Gehenna of the Jews." John F. Walvoord writes that the term "is frequently found in Jewish apocalyptic literature, where it refers to a place even lower than hell where the wicked are punished."