in Ancient Geography, a valley in the suburbs and to the east of Jerusalem, forming part of that of Kidron, infamous for the sacrifice of children, or passing them through the fire. The place in the valley where the idol stood to which the sacrifice was made was called Tophet, from the beating of drums or tabours in order to drown the shrieks of the children; and it had also the name Geonon, or the Valley of Ennon, whence some derive Gehenna, the place of future punishment.

BENI ARAX or BENI RASHID, a tribe of Arabs in the southern district of Algiers, possessed formerly of considerable power, but who, even in Shaw's time, were so much reduced, that their principal fortress consisted only of a poor village.