English-Thai Dictionary
tophet
N ชื่อ ปูชนียสถาน ใกล้ กรุง เย รู ซา เลม เป็น ที่ๆ เคย มี การ ฆ่า เด็ก เพื่อ บูชายัญ
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TOPHET
n.[Heb. tophet, a drum. ] Hell; so called from a place east of Jerusalem where children were burnt to Moloch, and where drums were used to drown their cries.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TOPHET
To "phet, n. Etym: [Heb. tophet, literally, a place to be spit upon, an abominable place, fr. tph to spit out. ]
Defn: A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. [Written also Topheth.] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom. 2 Kings xxiii. 1 .
Note: It seems to have been at first part of the royal garden, but it was afterwards defiled and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal and the fires of Moloch, and resounded with the cries of burning infants. At a later period, its altars and high places were thrown down, and all the filth of the city poured into it, until it became the abhorrence of Jerusalem, and, in symbol, the place where are wailing and gnashing of teeth. The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell. Milton.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Tophet
To phet |ˈtōfet ˈtoʊfət | ▶noun a term for hell. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Hebrew tōp̱eṯ, the name of a place in the Valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem used for idolatrous worship, including the sacrifice of children (see Jer. 19:6 ), and later for burning refuse.
Oxford Dictionary
Tophet
Tophet |ˈtəʊfɪt | ▶noun a term for hell. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Hebrew tōp̱eṯ, the name of a place in the Valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem used for idolatrous worship, including the sacrifice of children (see Jer. 19:6 ), and later for burning refuse.
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