Lexicon
סְדֹם
se.dom
H5467
N:N--L Hebrew

Sodom

39
Occurrences
8
Books
Hebrew
Language

se.dom is the place-name Sodom, named in narratives of its people, rulers, and overthrow and in later comparisons.

The term consistently names Sodom as a place: it occurs in accounts locating people and rulers there, in the city’s destruction, and in later comparisons that invoke Sodom’s wrongdoing or overthrow.

Senses in use

  1. The city and place called Sodom · dominant

    The supplied morphology identifies each form as a proper noun. In Genesis 14:2 the APB renders a king of Sodom among the kings who make battle; in Genesis 19:1 it renders the messengers’ arrival at Sodom and Lot at its gate. The same place-name is used in Genesis 19:24 for the city upon which fire falls, and later comparisons refer to Sodom’s sin or overthrow in Isaiah 3:9 and Jeremiah 50:40.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB normally presents the proper name as “Sodom,” including location, royal title, destruction, and comparison clauses. These renderings confirm the verse-level identification rather than supplying a separate lexical nuance.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture