How to Pronounce Hades
HAY-deez
Hades is pronounced HAY-deez: two syllables, stress on the first.
Where was Hades?
Hades is the Greek name for the realm of the dead in the New Testament; the King James Version translates it as hell. It appears where Jesus promises that the gates of Hades will not prevail against his church (Matthew 16:18) and where the risen Christ holds the keys of death and Hades (Revelation 1:18).