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Gehenna vs Tophet - What's the difference?

gehenna | tophet |

As nouns the difference between gehenna and tophet

is that gehenna is alternative case form of Gehenna while Tophet is a hellish place.

As proper nouns the difference between gehenna and tophet

is that gehenna is in Judaism and the New Testament the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death while Tophet is a location near Jerusalem in the valley of Gehenna where children were burned alive as sacrifice.

gehenna

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Gehenna)
    • ----

    tophet

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (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.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hellish place.
  • *1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , II:
  • *:In this Tophet , they commonly immolated their little children, and sometimes men of more yeers than discretion [...].