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Strong's #2011 - הִנֹּם
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- Hinnom = "lamentation"
- a valley (deep and narrow ravine) with steep, rocky sides located southwest of Jerusalem, separating Mount Zion to the north from the ´hill of evil counsel´ and the sloping rocky plateau of the ´plain of Rephaim´ to the south
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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, (ᵐ5 φάραγγα Ὀνομ Joshua 15:8 (twice in verse) Σονναμ Joshua 18:16; Ταιεννα Joshua 18:16; Ταιβενθομ 2 Chronicles 28:3, ᵐ5 L φάρ. Βενεννομ; γὲ βανὲ Ἑννομ) 2 Chronicles 33:6, ᵐ5 L 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 בניהנם, Qr & ᵐ5ᵑ9 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. 131f.) & NT γέεννα. On locality compare Rob BR ii. 273f. Tobl Topogr. ii 39 ff. Bd Pal 103; modern name (of lower half of valley, toward southeast) Wady er-Rabâbi.
הִנֹּם Hinnom, see under גַּי, letter a.
