different between gehenna vs tophet

English

Noun

gehenna (plural gehennas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna

Czech

Alternative forms

• Gehenna, džehenna

Proper noun

gehenna f

1. gehenna (one of various hells in Abrahamic religions)

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ?????? (géenna), from the Hebrew ???????????? (ge'henom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?hen.na/, [?e?(?)?n?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d??e?en.na/, [d?????n??]

Noun

gehenna f (genitive gehennae); first declension

1. the Hinnom Valley (a valley near Jerusalem where children were immolated for Moloch)
2. (transferred sense) Gehenna, hell
   • AD 382–4, Biblia Vulgata, Matth. 5:22:

     Ego autem dico vobis quia omnis qui irascitur fratri suo reus erit iudicio qui autem dixerit fratri suo racha reus erit concilio qui autem dixerit fatue reus erit gehennae ignis.

     But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. ? World English Bible translation

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative.

Derived terms

• gehenn?lis

References

• gehenna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gehenna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Further reading

• g?henna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???x?n.na/

Noun

gehenna f

1. (figuratively) ordeal

   Synonym: m?ka

2. (archaic) hell

   Synonym: piek?o

Declension

Related terms

• Gehenna

Further reading

• gehenna in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Tophet.

Noun

tophet (plural tophets)

1. (archaeology) A Carthaginian monument associated with a cemetery for ritually sacrificed children.
   • 1991, John Boardman, The Cambridge Ancient History (part 1, page 490)

     They are an important factor indicating a corpus of beliefs common to the important central colonies (Carthage, Sousse, Motya, Sulcis, Nora, Tharros), where tophets and accompanying grave stelae have been found.