Some suppose the genitive to refer not to purifying fires but to the fires of Moloch others regard it as the natural symbol of penalty (cf. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called γηννα τοῦ πυρός (this common explanation of the descriptive genitive τοῦ πυρός is found in Rabbi David Kimchi (fl. ![]() The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices had been abolished by king Josiah ( 2 Kings 23:10), that they cast into it not only all manner of refuse, but even the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed. Joshua 15:8 Pressel in Herzog, under the word), which was so called from the cries of the little children who were thrown into the fiery arms of Moloch (which see), i. ![]() 82ff) accusative to the common opinion הִנֹּם is the name of a man), Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south and east of Jerusalem (yet apparently beginning on the Winer's Grammar, cf. Hitzig (and Graf) on Jeremiah 7:31 (Böttcher, De Inferis, i., p. Γηννα (others would accent γηννα, deriving it through the Chaldee. ![]() Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1067: γηννα
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