Lexical Summary Hinnom: a valley Southwest of Jer Original Word: הִנֹּםTransliteration: Hinnom Phonetic Spelling: (hin-nome') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a valley Southwest of Jer Meaning: Ben-hinnom -- a valley Southwest of Jerusalem Strong's Concordance Hinnom Probably of foreign origin; Hinnom, apparently a Jebusite -- Hinnom. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2011. Hinnom 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 ׳ג ׳ה, proper name, of a location of valley south of Jerusalem, (ᵐ5 φάραγγα Ὀνομ Joshua 15:8 (twice in verse) Σονναμ 18:16; Ταιεννα 18:16; Ταιβενθομ2 Chronicles 28:3, ᵐ5L φάρ. Βενεννομ; γὲ βανὲ Ἑννομ) 33:6, ᵐ5L γῇ Βενεννομ; elsewhere usually φάρ. (υιὁῦ) Ἑννομ) — compare below גַּיְא; — as mere topographical term בֶןהִֿנֹּם גֵּי, boundary between Judah & Benjamin Joshua 15:8; 18:16; also ה ׳גֵּי 15:8; 18:16 (all P) compare Nehemiah 11:30; elsewhere always ׳גּ ׳בֶןהֿ (2 Kings 23:10 Kt has הנם בני גּי, Qr & ᵑ9 ᵐ5 singular), & always with reference to the sacrifice of children by fire, 23:10; 2 Chronicles 28:3; 33:6; Jeremiah 7:31-32, 19:2, 6; 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 WeberSynagog. Theol. 326 ff. DiBuch Henoch. 131 f.) & NT γέεννα. On locality compare RobBR ii. 273 f. ToblTopogr. ii 39 ff. BdPal 103; modern name (of lower half of valley, toward southeast) Wady er-Rabâbi. |
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