# das Reich des Todes

das Reich des Todes is a German noun meaning “netherworld”. Forms: des Reichs des Todes.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Reichs des Todes

## Meanings

1. _no plural_ netherworld, underworld, Hades, Sheol (kind of afterlife that is neither heaven nor hell)
2. _no plural · specifically_ the place that the dead went to before the resurrection of Christ, “hell” as in harrowing of hell
   - Gekreuzigt, gestorben und begraben, hinabgestiegen in das Reich des Todes, am dritten Tage auferstanden von den Toten. — Crucified, dead and buried, he descended into hell, on the third day he rose again from the dead. (Apostles' Creed)

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