Zoar
zo'-ar (tso`ar; the Septuagint usually Segor, Zogora): The
name of the city to which Lot escaped from Sodom (Gen 19:20-
23,30), previously mentioned in Gen 13:10; 14:2,8, where its
former name is said to have been Bela. In 19:22, its name is
said to have been given because of its littleness, which
also seems to have accounted for its being spar...
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A city of the Moabites, near the Jordan River
Ge 13:10
-Territory of
De 34:3; Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34
-King of, fought against Chedorlaomer
Ge 14:2,8
-Not destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah
Ge 19:20-23,30...
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(smallness), one of the most ancient cities of the land of
Canaan. Its original name was BELA.
Ge 14:2,8 It was in intimate connection with the
cities of the "plain of Jordan" --Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and
Zeboiim, See also Ge 13:10 but not Gene 10:19
In the general destruction of the cities of the
plain Zoar was spared to afford shelter to Lo...
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small, a town on the east or south-east of the Dead Sea, to
which Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom (Gen.
19:22, 23). It
was originally called Bela (14:2, 8). It is referred
to by the
prophets Isaiah (15:5) and Jeremiah (48:34). Its ruins
are still
seen at the opening of the ravine of Kerak, the Kir-
Moab
referred to in 2 Kings 3, the m...
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Originally Bela; still called so when Abram first settled in
Canaan (Genesis 14:2; Genesis 14:8; Genesis 14:10).
Connected with the cities of the plain, Sodom, Gomorrah,
Admah, and Zeboiim (Genesis 13:10). The southern division of
the Dead Sea (apparently of comparatively recent formation),
abounding with salt, and throwing up bitumen, and its...
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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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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the
LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the
LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar....
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Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till
thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was
called Zoar....
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