- Transliteration: Tartaroo

- Phonetic: tar-tar-o'-o

- Definition:

1. 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

2. to thrust down to Tartarus, to hold captive in Tartarus

- Origin: from Tartaros (the deepest abyss of hell)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From Τάρταρος Tartaros̄ (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment: - cast down to hell.