BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5467
se.dom — Sodom
Sodom = "burning" a Canaanite city, usually paired with Gomorrah, located in the area of the Dead Sea and the Jordan river; both cities destroyed by God in judgment Also named: Sodoma (Σόδομα "Sodom" G4670)
32 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4670
Sodoma — Sodom
Σόδομα, -ων, τά (Heb. סְדֹם), Sodom (Gen.13:10, 12, al.): Mat.10:15 11:23-24 Luk.10:12 17:29, Rom.9:29" (LXX), 2Pe.2:6, Ju 7, Rev.11:8.† (AS)
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3876
lot — Lot
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.27; son of: Haran (H2039); brother of: Milcah (H4435) and Iscah (H3252); father of: daughter1_of_Lot (H3876H), daughter2_of_Lot (H3876I), Moab (H4124H), Ben-ammi (H1151) Also named: Lōt (Λώτ "Lot" G3091) § Lot = "covering" son of Haran and Abraham's nephew who settled in Sodom and was delivered from its destruction by God
30 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6017
a.mo.rah — Gomorrah
Gomorrah = "submersion" the twin-city in evil with Sodom, both destroyed in judgment by God with fire from heaven Also named: Gomorra (Γόμορρα "Gomorrah" G1116)
19 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6820
tso.ar — Zoar
§ Zoar = "insignificance" a city at the southeast end of the Dead Sea grouped with Sodom and Gomorrah as being one of the 5 cities slated for destruction by God; spared at Lot's plea as his place of refuge
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4114
mah.pe.khah — overthrow
1) overthrow, destruction 1a) always of Sodom and Gomorrah
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6636
tse.vo.im — Zeboiim
§ Zeboim or Zeboiim = "gazelles" one of the 5 cities in the plain which included Sodom and Gomorrah
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G733
arsenokoitēs — sodomite
ἀρσενοκοίτης, -ου, ὁ (ἄρσην, κοιτή), a sodomite: 1Co.6:9, 1Ti.1:10.† (AS)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7740
sha.veh — Shaveh
§ Shaveh = "plain" or "level plain" the valley where the king of Sodom met Abram after a battle
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1298
be.ra — Bera
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.14.2 § Bera = "son of evil" a king of Sodom
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2327
cho.vah — Hobah
§ Hobah = "hiding place" a city north of Damascus to which Abraham pursued the kings who had pillaged Sodom
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3962
le.sah — Lasha
Lasha = "fissure" a place in the southeast of Palestine at the limit of the Canaanites territory, near Sodom and Gomorrah Also named: na.cha.li.el (נַחֲלִיאֵל "Nahaliel" H5160)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8038
shem.e.ver — Shemeber
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.14.2 § Shemeber = "lofty flight" king of Zeboim and an ally of the king of Sodom
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20354
endiallassō — to sodomize
sodomite
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10; 14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deut. 23:17). This city and its awful destruction are frequently alluded to in Scripture (Deut. 29:23; 32:32; Isa. 1:9, 10; 3:9; 13:19; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 16:46-56; Zeph. 2:9; Matt. 10:15; Rom. 9:29; 2 Pet. 2:6, etc.). No trace of it or of the other cities of the plain has been discovered, so complete was their destruction. Just opposite the site of Zoar, on the south-west coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills, forming a mass of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, “the hill of Sodom.” It has been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead Sea. Others, however, with much greater probability, contend that they stood at the northern end of the sea. [in 1897].
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
