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)
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a.mo.rah · Gomorrah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 10:19 · וַעֲמֹרָ֛הThe border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.Genesis 13:10 · עֲמֹרָ֔הLot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.Genesis 14:2 · עֲמֹרָ֑הthat they 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 (the same is Zoar).Genesis 14:8 · עֲמֹרָ֗הThe 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) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;Genesis 14:10 · וַעֲמֹרָ֖הNow the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.Genesis 14:11 · וַעֲמֹרָ֛הThey took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.Genesis 18:20 · וַעֲמֹרָ֖הYahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,Genesis 19:24 · עֲמֹרָ֖הThen Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.Genesis 19:28 · וַעֲמֹרָ֔הHe looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.Deuteronomy 29:23 · וַעֲמֹרָה֙and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:Deuteronomy 32:32 · עֲמֹרָ֑הFor their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.Isaiah 1:9 · לַעֲמֹרָ֖הUnless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.Isaiah 1:10 · עֲמֹרָֽה׃Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!Isaiah 13:19 · עֲמֹרָֽה׃Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.Jeremiah 23:14 · כַּעֲמֹרָֽה׃ סIn the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.Jeremiah 49:18 · וַעֲמֹרָ֛הAs in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.Jeremiah 50:40 · עֲמֹרָ֛הAs when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.Amos 4:11 · עֲמֹרָ֔ה“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.Zephaniah 2:9 · כַּֽעֲמֹרָ֔הTherefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.