GOMORRAH – Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

v. Sodom Gen 18:20; 19:24

Gomorrah (Heb. Amôrâh, “immersion”; Gr. Gomorrah). City on the Jordan plain (Gen 10:19; 13:10) mentioned for the 1st time in the Ebla cuneiform texts of the prepatriarchal period. Sister city of Sodom, * and one of the 5 conquered by Chedorlaomer and his allies in the time of Abraham (14: 8-11). Shortly after this event, fire from heaven destroyed her because of her wickedness (Gen 18:20; 19:24-28; Deu 29:23; Isa 1:9; Jer 23:14; 49:18; Amo 4 :11; Zeph. 2:9; Matt. 10:15). Its location is not yet certain, but it is generally placed under the southern waters of the Dead Sea. The maritime zone that is to the south of the present eastern peninsula is very shallow, due to the fact that the waters covered the lowlands of the region. Others want to identify Gomorrah with one of the 5 Early Bronze 3rd millennium BC sites that have been discovered by 500 east and south of the southern Dead Sea: Bâb edh-Dhrâ, Numeira, Safi, Feifa and Khanazir.

Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary

See Sodom.

Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003

Source: Digital Bible Dictionary

(Heb., amorah; Gr., Gomorrah, immersion). One of the five cities of the plain located in the valley of Siddim at the southern end of the Dead Sea, destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot. Today indications abound of the great punitive catastrophe; p. eg, large amounts of salt, with deposits of bitumen, sulfur and nitro on the shores of the Dead Sea.

Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary

(submersion).

One of the five cities of the plain near the Dead Sea: (Pentapolis).

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by Yahweh, who rained fire and brimstone on them: (Gen 19:24, Gen 19:29). Today they are submerged under the Dead Sea; Not only destroyed by fire and brimstone, but buried in a sea of ​​salt where nothing and no one can live!

They were destroyed by the sins of homosexuality: (Ge.19).

Jesus says that the cities where the Gospel has been preached and have not heard it, will be treated worse than Sodom and Gomorrah; and among them, he mentions Capernaum, which was one of the places where Jesus performed more miracles: (Mat 11: 20-24, Lc.10).

Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez

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Source: Christian Bible Dictionary

(Submersion). One of † œthe cities of the plain † towards which † ¢ Lot went † œputting his tents † (Gen 13:12). His king was called †¢Birsa and he was defeated by †¢Chedorlaomer, who took captive the inhabitants of G., who were ransomed by Abraham (Gen 14: 1-16). The name of G. always appears associated with that of †¢Sodoma. Both cities were characterized by an enormous environment of sin, which makes God decide to destroy them, but not before notifying Abraham (Gen. 18). “The Lord rained on Sodom and on G. brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven” (Gen 19:24). G. was to the S of the Dead Sea. Some believe that the site is today covered by water. †¢Sodom and Gomorrah.

Source: Christian Bible Dictionary

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see, MARDIKH (TELL), SODOM, ABRAHAM

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vet, “immersion” (cp. the Arabic “ghamara”, “to flood”). City of the Jordan plain (Gen. 10:19; 13:10). Chedorlaomer and his allies defeated the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, sacking both cities (Gen. 14: 8-11). Because of the unleashed perversity of their inhabitants they were soon after destroyed by fire from heaven (Gen. 18:20; 19:24-28; Dt. 29:23; Is. 1:9; Am. 4:11; Jer 23:14; 49:18; Zeph 2:9; Matt 10:15). Its historicity has been vindicated by the recent discoveries of Ebla at Tell Mardikh, where tablets have been found that mention Gomorrah and the other surrounding cities as centers of contemporary trade. (See MARDIKH (TELL), SODOMA, ABRAHAM, etc.) Bibliography: EH Merrill: “Ebla and Biblical Historical Inerrancy”, Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. 140, Oct.-Dec. 1983, no. 560; C. Wilson: “Ebla Tablets: Secrets of a Forgotten City” (Revelations of Tell Mardikh) (Master Books, San Diego, California, 1977).

Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary

City around the Dead Sea in Palestine, which received, along with Sodom, the biblical punishment narrated in Genesis (Gen. 18 and ss), as a consequence of its aberrations and sins. The Bible presents it in the context of a Pentapolis (with Sebboyim, Soar, Adama, Sodom), and with a king named Barsá, the object of attacks by Amraphel and his allies. In this context, Lot and his family were taken prisoner with his property. Abraham went to liberate them and destroyed the adversaries.

It is possible that it was a fertile region before the subsidence of the southern area of ​​the Dead Sea.

It is the place of the tectonic fault that forms the entire Jordan depression and that ten millennia ago did not have the same design as it does today. It is also possible that it offered pastures and sheltered migrating shepherds, in the style of Lot.

After the punishment of fire and brimstone, the region remained, until today, barren for crops, although rich in hydrocarbons, unthinkable wealth for Old Testament settlers.

Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006

Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy

One of the ‘District cities’, probably situated near the southern end of the Dead Sea. (Ge 13:12) Sodom and Gomorrah must have been the main cities. Many scholars believe that their ruins are now submerged under the waters of the Dead Sea, although others have recently identified the ruins of these cities as points in the E. and SE wadis. of the Dead Sea. In Abraham’s time this was said to be “a well-watered region, like the garden of Jehovah.” (Ge 13:10; see JORDAH N, DISTRICT OF.) During the time that Abraham’s nephew Lot resided in this fertile district, King Birsha of Gomorrah and the kings of four other cities in the district rebelled against the domination of Kedorlaomer of Elam and three other allied kings. They were attacked and fled, with some of their soldiers falling into the many bitumen pits in the vicinity. Eastern kings sacked Sodom and Gomorrah, and also took Lot captive. (Ge 14:1-12.)
More than fourteen years later, the outcry of complaint over the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah became so great that Jehovah sent angels to survey those cities and destroy them by a rain of fire and brimstone. (Ge 18:20, 21; 19:24, 28)
The totality of the destruction of these cities was later used as a symbol of complete annihilation. (De 29:22, 23; Isa 1:9; 13:19; Jer 49:18) Jehovah figuratively expressed how wicked the rulers and people of Judah and Jerusalem had become when he told them through of the prophet Isaiah: “Hear the word of Jehovah, you dictators of Sodom. Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah† . (Isa 1:1, 10; Jer 23:14)
On one occasion when he was censuring certain first-century Jewish cities, Jesus made reference to the gross wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah. He directed this censure to Capernaum, where the people did not repent even though he had personally performed many of his mighty works there. Thus he said of any city that rejected his disciples and did not show faith even though they had performed mighty deeds showing divine backing: “On the Day of Judgment it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. that city† . (Mt 10:5-15; 11:23, 24) Sodom and Gomorrah, along with the surrounding cities, had been punished with “everlasting fire,” signifying everlasting destruction. So Jesus must have been using hyperbole to emphasize how difficult it would be for these faithless Jews to change, even if they were present on Judgment Day. (Jude 7.)

Source: Dictionary of the Bible

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