Last Updated：2025/11/23

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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Tophet

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Source Word

Tophet

IPA(Pronunciation)

Proper noun

Japanese Meaning

聖書において、エルサレム近郊のゲヘナ渓谷に存在し、子供が生きたまま焼かれる犠牲の地として言及される場所 / 比喩的に地獄やゲヘナを指すときに用いられる言葉

What is this buttons?

Historians still debate the rites once performed at Tophet in the valley outside ancient Jerusalem.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

歴史家たちは今も、エルサレム近郊のゲヘナの谷にある、子どもが生贄として火にされたとされる場所でかつて行われた儀式について議論している。

Sense（1）

(biblical) A location near Jerusalem in the valley of Gehenna where children were burned alive as sacrifice.

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

Hell, Gehenna.

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