Topheth

and once Tophet (place of burning), was in the southeast extremity of the "valley of the son of Hinnom," (Jeremiah 7:31) which is "by the entry of the east gate." (Jeremiah 19:2) The locality of Hinnom is to have been elsewhere. [HINNOM] It seems also to have been part of the king's gardens, and watered by Siloam, perhaps a little to the south of the present Birket el-Hamra . The name Tophet occurs only in the Old Testament. (2 Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 7:31,32; 19:6,11,12,13,14) The New does not refer to it, nor the Apocrypha. Tophet has been variously translated. The most natural meaning seems that suggested by the occurrence of the word in two consecutive verses, in one of which it is a tabret and in the other Tophet. (Isaiah 30:32,37) The Hebrew words are nearly identical; and Tophet war probably the king's "music-grove" or garden, denoting originally nothing evil or hateful. Certainly there is no proof that it took its name from the beaten to drown the cries of the burning victims that passed through the fire to Molech. Afterward it was defiled by idols and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal and the fires of Molech. Then it became the place of abomination, the very gate or pit of hell. The pious kings defiled it and threw down its altars and high places, pouring into it all the filth of the city, till it became the "abhorrence" of Jerusalem.

TOPHETH

to'-feth (ha-topheth, etymology uncertain; the most probable is its connection with a root meaning "burning"-the "place of burning"; the King James Version, Tophet, except in 2 Kings 23:10): The references are to such a place: "They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire" (Jeremiah 7:31). On account of this abomination Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom should be called "The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury," the Revised Version margin "because there shall be no place else" (Jeremiah 7:32); see also Jeremiah 19:6, 12, 13, 14. Josiah is said to have "defiled Topheth" as part of his great religious reforms (2 Kings 23:10). The site of this shameful place would seem to have been either at the lower end of the Valley of Hinnom (see HINNOM, VALLEY OF), near where Akeldama is now pointed out, or in the open ground where this valley joins the Kidron.

E. W. G. Masterman

8612. Topheth -- a place South of Jer.
... 8611, 8612. Topheth. 8613 . a place South of Jer. Transliteration: Topheth
Phonetic Spelling: (to'-feth) Short Definition: Topheth. ...
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8611. topheth -- (act of) spitting
... 8610, 8611. topheth. 8612 . (act of) spitting. Transliteration: topheth Phonetic
Spelling: (to'-feth) Short Definition: spit. ... 8610, 8611. topheth. 8612 > ...
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8613. Tophteh -- a place of burning, probably the same as Topheth
... 8612, 8613. Tophteh. 8614 . a place of burning, probably the same as Topheth.
Transliteration: Tophteh Phonetic Spelling: (tof-teh') Short Definition: Topheth ...
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Oracles on the Edge of Doom. (vii. 16-xviii Passim, xxii, Xlv. )
... onwards, or if suppressed by Josiah in obedience to Deuteronomy,(366) had been revived
under Jehoiakim; (2) VII.30-34, the high-places in Topheth, upon which ...
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Index of Names and Subjects.
... Hebrew poetry, 33. Heine, 36, 40. Herder, 34. Herodotus, 73, 206, 382. Hilkiah,
66. Hinnom, 185, 191, 195 (Topheth). Hosea, 4, 44, etc. Hugo, Victor, 167, 230. ...
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The Young Josiah and the Book of the Law
... He also destroyed Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, so that no man
could ever make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech. ...
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Topheth (9 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TOPHETH. to'-feth (ha-topheth, etymology
uncertain; the most probable is its connection with a root ...
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Tophet (8 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary =Topheth, from Hebrews toph "a drum," because the cries
of children here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the ...
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Hinnom (11 Occurrences)
... children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom" (2 Chronicles
33:6), but Josiah in the course of his reforms "defiled Topheth, which is ...
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Moloch (2 Occurrences)
... made his son to pass through the fire (2 Kings 21:6). The chief site of this worship,
of which Ahaz and Manasseh were the promoters, was Topheth in the Valley ...
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Ben (40 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 23:10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom,
that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to ...
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Molech (16 Occurrences)
... made his son to pass through the fire (2 Kings 21:6). The chief site of this worship,
of which Ahaz and Manasseh were the promoters, was Topheth in the Valley ...
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To'pheth (1 Occurrence)
To'pheth. Topheth, To'pheth. Topmost . Multi-Version Concordance To'pheth
(1 Occurrence). ... (See RSV). Topheth, To'pheth. Topmost . Reference Bible.
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Elsewhere (14 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 7:32 For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no
longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley ...
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Slaughter (121 Occurrences)
... See HINNOM, VALLEY OF; JERUSALEM, III, 2. VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER. See HINNOM, VALLEY
OF; SLAUGHTER, VALLEY OF; TOPHETH. SLAUGHTER, OF THE INNOCENTS. slo'-ter. ...
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Bury (78 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more
be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of ...
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