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Strong's #2011 - הִנֹּם
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Hinnom = “lamentation”
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
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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.