Bible Lexicons

 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, (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.