Gomorrah
go-mor'-a (`amorah; Septuagint and New Testament Gomorra, or
Gomorra; Arabic Ghamara, "to overwhelm with water"): One of
the CITIES OF THE PLAIN (which see) destroyed by fire from
heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Gen 19:23-29). It was
located probably in the plain South of the Dead Sea, now
covered with water. See ARABAH; CITIES OF THE P...
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One of the "cities of the plain,"
Ge 10:19; 13:10
-Its king defeated by Chedorlaomer
Ge 14:2,8-11
-Wickedness of
Ge 18:20
-Destroyed
Ge 19:24-28; De 29:23; 32:32; Isa 1:9,10; 13:19; Jer
23:14;
49:18; 50:40; Am 4:11; Zep 2:9; Mt 10:15; Mr 6:11; Ro
9:29;
2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7...
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(submersion), one of the five "cities of the plain" or "vale
of Siddim" that under the irrespective kings joined battle
there with Chedorlaomer Ge 14:2-8 and his allies by whom they
were discomfited till Abraham came to the rescue. Four out of
the five were afterwards destroyed by the Lord with fire from
heaven. Ge 19:23-29 One of them only, Z...
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submersion, one of the five cities of the plain of Siddim
(q.v.)
which were destroyed by fire (Gen. 10:19; 13:10;
19:24, 28).
These cities probably stood close together, and were
near the
northern extremity of what is now the Dead Sea. This
city is
always mentioned next after Sodom, both of which were
types of
impiety and wickedness (Gen....
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Traces of the catastrophe recorded in Genesis 19 are visible
in the whole region about the Dead, or as Scripture calls
it, the Salt Sea. frontSALT SEA.) . Volcanic agency and
earthquake, accompanying the fire shower, may have produced
the deep depression of the sea, and so arrested the Jordan's
original onward course through the Arabah into th...
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And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and
the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle
with them in the vale of Siddim;...
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[That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha
king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar....
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Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of
Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and
saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people
shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess
them....
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For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters
[are] bitter:...
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