† 
הִנֹּם proper name, masculine (derivation & meaning dubious; according to Sim Bö Gf and others = 
wailing, Arabic 

 from cries of children (see below), but this improbable) — only in 
גֵּי(גֵּיא)בֶןהֿ׳, & abbreviated 
ה׳ ג׳, 
proper name, of a location of valley south of Jerusalem, (
 φάραγγα Ὀνομ Joshua 15:8
 φάραγγα Ὀνομ Joshua 15:8 (twice in verse) 
Σονναμ Joshua 18:16; 
Ταιεννα Joshua 18:16; 
Ταιβενθομ 2 Chronicles 28:3, 
 φάρ. Βενεννομ
 φάρ. Βενεννομ; 
γὲ βανὲ Ἑννομ) 
2 Chronicles 33:6, 
 γῇ Βενεννομ
 γῇ Βενεννομ; elsewhere usually 
φάρ. (
υιὁῦ) 
Ἑννομ) — compare below 
גַּיְא; — as mere topographical term 
גֵּי בֶןהִֿנֹּם, boundary between Judah & Benjamin 
Joshua 15:8; 
Joshua 18:16; also 
גֵּי ה׳ Joshua 15:8; 
Joshua 18:16 (all P) compare 
Nehemiah 11:30; elsewhere always 
בֶןהֿ׳ גּ׳ (
2 Kings 23:10 Kt has 
גּי בני הנם, Qr & 
 
 
 singular), & always with reference to the sacrifice of children by fire, 
2 Kings 23:10; 
2 Chronicles 28:3; 
33:6; 
Jeremiah 7:31, 
32; 
Jeremiah 19:2, 
6; 
Jeremiah 32:35; on account of this inhuman & idolatrous practice it was abhorred by priest & prophet, & defiled by Josiah; this conception afterward developed, through 
Isaiah 66:24, into Jewish 
Gehinnom (compare Weber
Synagog. Theol. 326 ff. Di
Buch Henoch. 131 f.) & NT 
γέεννα. On locality compare Rob
BR ii. 273 f. Tobl
Topogr. ii 39 ff. Bd
Pal 103; modern name (of lower half of valley, toward southeast) 
Wady er-Rabâbi.
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