The Valley of Hinnom, also known as Gehenna, is a valley surrounding Ancient Jerusalem and a biblical term analogous to Christian Hell or Purgatory.
The Valley of Hinnom is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as part of the border between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. In later Jewish rabbinic literature, Gehenna became associated with divine punishment in Jewish Apocalypticism as the destination of the wicked.
The Bible refers to the valley as Gei Ben-Hinnom ("valley of the son of Hinnom") or Gē Hīnnōm ("valley of Hinnom"). In Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic, the name was compounded into Gehinnom or Gehinnam. English "Gehenna" represents Géenna, the Greek transliteration found in the New Testament.