Lexical Definition

‎הִנֹּם‎ Hinnôm (hin-nome') (Topheth of) Hinnom ^N:N--L
probably of foreign origin

Hinnom.

• § Hinnom = "lamentation"
• Hinnom, apparently a Jebusite

1) 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

See Greek: γέεννα

Extended Information

part of: תֹּפֶת

• Hinnom = "lamentation"
• Combined with to.phet (‎ת‎ֹּ֫‎פ‎ֶ‎ת‎ "Topheth" תֹּפֶת)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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 Josh 15:8 (twice in verse) Σονναμ Josh 18:16 Ταιεννα vJosh 18:16 Ταιβενθομ 2Chr 28:3, ᵐ5^L φάρ. Βενεννομ; γὲ βανὲ Ἑννομ) 2Chr 33:6, ᵐ5^L γῇ Βενεννομ; elsewhere usually φάρ. (υιὁῦ) Ἑννομ) — compare below ‎גַּיְא‎; — as mere topographical term ‎גֵּי בֶןהִֿנֹּם‎, boundary between Judah & Benjamin Josh 15:8; Josh 18:16 also ‎׳‎‎גֵּי ה‎ Josh 15:8; Josh 18:16 (all P) compare Neh 11:30 elsewhere always ‎׳‎‎בֶןהֿ‎ ‎׳‎‎גּ‎ (2Kgs 23:10 Kt has ‎גּי בני‎ ‎הנם‎, Qr & ᵐ5 ᵑ9 singular), & always with reference to the sacrifice of children by fire, 2Kgs 23:10; 2Chr 28:3; 2Chr 33:6; Jer 7:31; Jer 7:32; Jer 19:2; Jer 19:6; Jer 32:35 on account of this inhuman & idolatrous practice it was abhorred by priest & prophet, & defiled by Josiah; this conception afterward developed, through Isa 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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