Tophel standard
addressed the people, by reference to certain other places which might be presumed to be better known. Not one of them, however, has been satisfactorily identified.
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Tophel
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)addressed the people, by reference to certain other places which might be presumed to be better known. Not one of them, however, has been satisfactorily identified. Some think Tophel may be represented by the modern et-tafeleh, 15 miles Southeast of the Dead Sea, on the caravan road from Petra to Kerak. Apart from the question of position, the change of "t" to "T" is not easily explained. Meantime we must suspend judgment.
W. Ewing
to'-feth (ha-topheth, etymology uncertain; the most probable is its connection with a root meaning "burning"--the "place of burning"; the King James Version, Tophet, except in 2Ki 23:10