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A location near Jerusalem in the valley of Gehenna where children were burned alive as sacrifice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
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name
Hell, Gehenna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A Carthaginian monument associated with a cemetery for ritually sacrificed children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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History
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew תֹּפֶת (tôp̄eṯ).
From Tophet.
Across languages
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