Tophet

For the sacred precinct of Carthage with that name, see Carthage.

In the Hebrew Bible Tophet or Topheth (Hebrew:תוֹפֶת‎; Greek:Ταφεθ; Latin:Topheth) was a location in Jerusalem in the Gehinnom where worshipers influenced by the ancient Canaanite religion engaged in the human sacrifice of children to the gods Moloch and Baal by burning them alive. Tophet became a theological or poetic synonym for hell within Christendom.