– From the Hebrew gehinom ( gehene Hinnom , valley of Ben-Enom), it passed to the Greek géenna , place of torture and, by ecclesiastical Latin, place of eternal torment, hell.
– Name of a valley between Judah and Benjamin where human beings were sacrificed:
2 Kings 23:10 : He also profaned Topheth in the Valley of Ben-Enon, so that no one would make his son pass through the fire.
2Ch 28,3 : He burned perfume in the Valley of Beninom and made his children pass through the fire.
2Ch 33,6 : He caused his own children to pass through the fire in the valley of Beninom.
Jer 7,31-32 : They built the high place of Tophet, in the valley of Ben-Enon, to burn their sons and daughters there.
Jr 19,2.6 : And you will go to the valley of Ben-Enon, close to the exit of the Porta dos Cacos.
Jer 32:35 : They built altars to Baal in the valley of Ben-Enon, there to burn their sons and daughters in honor of Moloch.
– Later it became the place where garbage was constantly burned:
Jer 19,1-2 : Go to the potter’s house […] Then you will take the elders of the people with you […] and go to the valley of Ben-Enon.
– And therefore the city around was always impure and filthy:
Jr 19,12-13 : The houses of Jerusalem and the palaces of the kings of Judah will be as filthy as the soil of Tophet.
– He went on to indicate the place of perennial fire where souls are punished in hell:
Mt 5,22.29.30 : Everyone who is angry with his brother will be punished by the judges.[…] he will be condemned to the fire of Gehenna.
Mt 10,28 : Do not be afraid of them; for there is nothing hidden that will not come to light, nothing secret that will not come to light.
Mt 18 :9 : It is better for you to enter life blind in one eye than to be thrown with your two eyes into the fire of Gehenna.
Mt 23,15.33 : You travel seas and lands to make a proselyte and, when you get him, you make him a son of hell.
Mk 9,43-44 : It is better for you to enter life crippled than, having two hands, to go to Gehenna, to the unquenchable fire.
Lc 12,5 : Be afraid of him who, after killing, has the power to cast into hell; yes, I tell you: fear him.
