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Biblical place of punishment
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tophet
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tophet \To"phet\, n. [Heb. t[=o]phet, literally, a place to be spit upon, an abominable place, fr. t[=u]ph to spit out.] A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. [Written also Topheth .] And he defiled Topheth, which is in ...
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Tophet is Frost Like Ashes ' first full length album , released in 2005.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place near Jerusalem, where, according to the Old Testament, idolatrous Jews made human sacrifice to strange gods; later symbolic of the torments of Hell.
Usage examples of tophet.
And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.
I told Omar that I would see you in the lowest pit of Tophet before I would go with you to--whatever the name of this place is.
This answer scandalized the good priest, who could not foresee that the flames of Tophet would be extinguished without the necessity of any other waters than those of indifference.
We had been saved from immediate destruction, but it certainly seemed like exchanging Tophet for a slow fire.
It was night, blacker than Tophet, and raining, and you came ashore wet as a rag.
Black smoke, as of Tophet, filling all your universe, it can yet by true heart-energy become flame, and the brilliancy of heaven.
But if I had I would see you and your Government in Tophet before I repeated it.
There was nobody in the world whose wisdom I put higher than hers, and I would have trusted her to the other side of Tophet, but I hated to think of a woman mixed up in something so ugly and perilous.
Now, if you don't shut up about this Tophet stuff, that's what you're going to get.