†
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 (twice in verse)
Σονναμ Joshua 18:16;
Ταιεννα Joshua 18:16;
Ταιβενθομ 2 Chronicles 28:3,
φάρ. Βενεννομ;
γὲ βανὲ Ἑννομ)
2 Chronicles 33:6,
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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