Sodoma names Sodom as a city invoked in accounts of destruction, judgment, comparison, and spiritual designation.

The term names Sodom most often in comparisons of judgment or endurance, while other verses place it in accounts of its destruction, use it as a comparison point, or apply the name spiritually to a great city.

1. Sodom in judgment comparisons · dominant

   In Matthew 10:15, Matthew 11:24, and Luke 10:12, the genitive or dative plural form occurs in clauses comparing what will be more bearable for Sodom with the judgment of another city or town. In Matthew 11:23 the dative plural form appears in the conditional statement that Sodom would have remained if comparable powers had occurred there.

   Matthew 10:15Matthew 11:23Matthew 11:24Luke 10:12
2. Sodom in destruction and exemplary warning · common

   In 2 Peter 2:6 the genitive plural form occurs with the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as condemned and turned to ashes; the APB renders the clause "the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah." In Jude 1:7 the nominative plural form heads the group "Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them," set forth as an example, while Luke 17:29 recalls the day Lot left Sodom before fire and sulfur destroyed all.

   2 Peter 2:6Jude 1:7Luke 17:29
3. Sodom as comparison and spiritual designation · occasional

   In Romans 9:29 the nominative plural form occurs in the comparison that the speakers would have become like Sodom. In Revelation 11:8 the nominative plural form is used in the statement that the great city is called spiritually "Sodom and Egypt."

   Romans 9:29Revelation 11:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB ordinarily presents the name as "Sodom," sometimes within "Sodom and Gomorrah" or "the land of Sodom." In Revelation 11:8 it renders the designation "spiritually Sodom and Egypt"; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.