BDB2208

הִנֹּם proper name, masculine (derivation & meaning dubious; according to Sim Bö Gf and others = wailing, Arabic [untranscribed source text 1334] 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 Josh 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.