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The Definition of the word Tophet

Tophet

=Topheth, from Heb. toph a drum," because the cries of children" here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the "noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph, meaning "to" "burn," and hence a place of burning, the name of a particular"


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