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You can't prove anything. You’re lucky intelligence isn’t measured in negative numbers.
How many times do I have to repeat myself? Gehenna is the Aramaic word that appears in the earliest manuscripts. The name Gehenna (or Gehennah) is an Aramaic word, contracted from ‘Ge Hinnom,’ i.e. Valley of Hinnom. The Himmon valley is an L-shaped downstream continuation of the Kidron valley, running immediately to the south and then west of the city walls of old Jerusalem. It is currently known as Wadi er-Rababeh. So, it's the Valley of Hinnom, a physical location just outside Jerusalem, which was the city's rubbish dump where fires burned continuously to consume waste. When Jesus warned about Gehenna, he was using a vivid metaphor that his audience would have instantly understood. He was talking about wasted lives.
Hell, as a word, did not come from the Bible. The word is Germanic in origin and is, ironically, tied to Norse mythology, as a goddess named Hel oversaw the dead in Norse myth. In ancient and early medieval mythology, it was common for the name of the deity of death to also be frequently used to describe the realm of the dead. You can find more details at the Historian's Hut.
"Earliest", meaning the theological fanfiction gnostic heretics wrote.
So this is who you are. Good to know I'm messaging with another fake Christian (Crypto-Jew). It goes all the way back to the Roman empire which made sure to use propaganda against Gnostics as heretics, which led Gnostics to be persecuted, killed and others to ran away. A small number of Gnostics survived such relentless persecutions. Obviously you have no idea the first Christian state was not Catholic Rome, but a Gnostic one, Osroene, with its capital at Edessa in modern Turkey near the Syrian border. The Gnostic teacher, Bardesanes (or Bardaisan), converted King Abgar IX, who ruled 177-212. Bardesanes was credited by church fathers with inventing the Christian hymn and wrote 150 songs that were popular for generations. The most famous is the “Hymn of the Pearl,” a beautiful allegory of the soul being lost in the world and returning to God, found in The Acts of Thomas, an early 3rd century text. But once the Catholic faction received the official support of the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325, persecution of heretics intensified and the Gnostics went underground and faded away.
I doubt you care about history as much as you care to accuse others of heresy... by "earliest manuscripts" I was referring to the original New Testament texts which were written in Aramaic. These are called the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament. And Aramaic is what Jesus and all his disciples spoke. This is what the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament said before being translated into Greek. Many people, obviously including you, don’t know what Aramaic Peshitta is, and think the original NT was written in Greek, but scholars know better. And this is what scholars of ancient semitic languages have been trying to tell us. This is what the Eastern Christian traditions, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Amorites have reserved in their liturgies, meantime the Western church built an elaborate institution on mistranslations (and deliberate wrong translations).